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Altair (other)
Altair is a star in the Aquila constellation. Altair may also refer to: Organizations * Altair Airlines, a regional airline that operated out of Philadelphia, Pa., US, from 1967 to 1982 * Altair Semiconductor, a developer of 4G cellular communication semiconductors * Altair Nanotechnologies Inc., manufacturer of energy storage systems * Altair Engineering, an American product design and development, engineering software and cloud computing software company * 4th Army Aviation Regiment "Altair", Italy Entertainment * ''Altair'' (film) a 1956 drama film * Altair: A Record of Battles, a Japanese manga series * Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair, an album by La Dispute Fiction Fictional characters * Altaïr Ibn-LaʼAhad, a character in the ''Assassin's Creed'' video game series * Altair, a character in the video game '' Bomberman 64'' * Altair the Black Knight, a character in the anime series ''Gear Fighter Dendoh'' * Ratchet Altair, a character in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altair
Altair is the brightest star in the constellation of Aquila and the twelfth-brightest star in the night sky. It has the Bayer designation Alpha Aquilae, which is Latinised from α Aquilae and abbreviated Alpha Aql or α Aql. Altair is an A-type main-sequence star with an apparent visual magnitude of 0.77 and is one of the vertices of the Summer Triangle asterism; the other two vertices are marked by Deneb and Vega. It is located at a distance of from the Sun. Altair is currently in the G-cloud—a nearby interstellar cloud, an accumulation of gas and dust. Altair rotates rapidly, with a velocity at the equator of approximately 286 km/s.From values of ''v'' sin ''i'' and ''i'' in the second column of Table 1, Monnier et al. 2007. This is a significant fraction of the star's estimated breakup speed of 400 km/s. A study with the Palomar Testbed Interferometer revealed that Altair is not spherical, but is flattened at the poles due to i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spyro The Dragon
''Spyro the Dragon'' is a platform game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation on September 9, 1998. The first game in the ''Spyro'' series, it stars the title character, a young purple dragon named Spyro, and his dragonfly friend, Sparx, who must journey across the Dragon Kingdom to defeat Gnasty Gnorc, who has overtaken the 5 dragon Homeworlds by trapping the other dragons in crystal and turning their hoard of gems into an army of minions. ''Spyro the Dragon'' is an open-ended 3D platformer, featuring large, sprawling levels in which the player must locate collectable items, among which are gemstones, crystallized dragons, and stolen dragon eggs. Spyro's abilities as a dragon include fire breath, a head-on charging attack, and a mid-air glide which he can use to scale large distances, all of which must be used strategically to find items and defeat enemies. ''Spyro the Dragon'' started development following the release of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altair 8800
The Altair 8800 is a microcomputer designed in 1974 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 CPU. Interest grew quickly after it was featured on the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics and was sold by mail order through advertisements there, in ''Radio-Electronics'', and in other hobbyist magazines. The Altair is widely recognized as the spark that ignited the microcomputer revolution as the first commercially successful personal computer. The computer bus designed for the Altair was to become a ''de facto'' standard in the form of the S-100 bus, and the first programming language for the machine was Microsoft's founding product, Altair BASIC. "This announcement ltair 8800ranks with IBM's announcement of the System/360 a decade earlier as one of the most significant in the history of computing." History While serving at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, Ed Roberts and Forrest M. Mims III decided to use their electronics background ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luch (satellite)
The ''Luch'' (russian: Луч; lit. ''Ray'') Satellite Data Relay Network (SDRN), also referred to as ''Altair'' and ''Gelios'', is a series of geosynchronous Russian relay satellites, used to transmit live TV images, communications and other telemetry from the Soviet/Russian space station ''Mir'', the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) of the International Space Station and other orbital spacecraft to the Earth, in a manner similar to that of the US Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. First generation The first generation of satellites was created by NPO-PM using the satellite platform KAUR-4 (its first use) and had the code name "Altair" (index GUKOS - 11F669). The system was conceived as part of the second generation of the Global Satellite Data Relay Network (Глобальная Космическая Командно-Ретрансляционная система (GKKRS)) and was developed by decree of the Soviet Council of Ministers of February 17, 1976 (the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Ta'ir (satellite)
The Al-Ta'ir ( ar, الطائر) satellite was an Iraqi small experimental satellite program designed for conducting communication and rangefinding. It started in the 1980s under the leadership of Saddam Hussein and was to be put in LEO with the help of an Ariane 4 or al-Abid vehicle; however, after the Gulf War, Iraq could not obtain such vehicles and could only develop the satellite. History It was in the 1980s that Iraq under Saddam Hussein sought to produce its own satellite however foreign political opposition made this difficult thus research could only formally begin in 1988 with the start of the Iraqi space program in which the development of a launch vehicle was also sought. According to the Space Applications Center of the Space Technology Directorate within Iraq's Ministry of Science & Technology Sarmad D.S. Dawood Iraq's scientific research council established a space research center, Iraqi scientists of the research center managed to produce two identical flight-rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altaír Jarabo
Altaír Jarabo García (born August 7, 1986, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress and fashion model. She is best known for her antagonistic roles in Mexican telenovelas including '' Inocente de ti'', ''Al diablo con los guapos'', ''En nombre del amor'', ''Abismo de pasión'', ''Mentir para vivir'', ''Que te perdone Dios'', ''Vencer el desamor'' and ''Corazón guerrero''. She has a brother named Jorge Jarabo Garcia. Career Well known as a fashion model in Mexico, Jarabo made her acting debut in 1993 in the telenovela '' El peñón del amaranto'' as Amaranta. In 2002, she appeared in ''Súbete a mi moto'' with Vanessa Acosta and Sandra Echeverría. She became popular worldwide by portraying Isela in the 2004 telenovela '' Inocente de ti'', starring Camila Sodi and Valentino Lanús. In 2005, she appeared in '' El amor no tiene precio'' as Vanessa. In 2006, she portrayed as Afrodita Carvajal in the teenage telenovela ''Código Postal''. In 2007, the audience saw her on ''Lol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altair Gomes De Figueiredo
Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, usually referred to as Altair (January 22, 1938 – August 9, 2019), was a football defender and a World Champion for Brazil in the 1962 World Cup. He spent his entire career at Fluminense, for which he played 551 games, scoring twice. He was called “''magro''” (slim) because he was skinny and despite his modest physical appearance, was a tough tackler and tremendous marker. His duels with Garrincha Manuel Francisco dos Santos (28 October 1933 – 20 January 1983), nicknamed Mané Garrincha, best known as simply Garrincha (, "little bird"), was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a right winger. He is widely regarded as one of ... were legendary. He retired from playing in 1971 aged 33. References External links * 1938 births 2019 deaths Brazilian footballers Association football defenders Fluminense FC players Sport Club do Recife players Fluminense FC managers 1962 FIFA World Cup players 1966 FIFA World Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altair (Building)
Altair is a residential and commercial development under construction in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The building has a 68 floor vertical tower and 63 floor leaning or sloping tower. At 240m, the building will be one of the tallest buildings in Colombo when it is completed. The building is situated on the banks of the Beira Lake on a 2-acre plot of land leased by the Urban Development Authority of Sri Lanka to the Developer Indocean Developers. Development was halted for five years, and then restarted in 2020. The first phase of the building opened in March 2021. Location The building is located in the heart of Colombo, in an area the Urban Development Authority plans to convert into a pedestrian-only promenade to facilitate the high-street retail component being constructed at street level. The building's podium consists of a retail podium for 2 levels of high street shopping and public plaza in front. The public plaza was created by diverting traffic away from the area, making a w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altair, Texas
Altair is an unincorporated community in Colorado County, Texas, United States. It is located at the four-way stop sign junction of U.S. Route 90 Alternate and State Highway 71. The community had an estimated population of 30 in 2000. Geography Altair is located at (29.5713505, -96.4541355). It is situated along U.S. Highway 90A in south central Colorado County, about nine miles south of Columbus and 28 miles north of El Campo. File:Altair TX Sign.JPG, Beyond the Altair sign on US 90A is the Highway 71 junction and the rice dryer, Kallina Dryer Inc. The view is east. File:Altair TX Rice Mill.JPG, The rice dryer, Kallina Dryer Inc., is a prominent landmark in Altair. File:Altair TX Rice Junior High.JPG, Rice CISD Junior High School is located on US 90A between Altair and Rock Island. History The community dates from the late 1880s. Located on the R.E. and John Stafford ranch property, the community developed into a cattle loading station that was initially called Stafford' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altair, São Paulo
Altair is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 4,186 (2020 est.) in an area of 313.86 km². The neighboring municipalities are Icém to the north and Olímpia Olímpia is a municipality in the state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Brazil, in the Microregion of São José do Rio Preto. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 55,130 inhabitants. The city has a total area of . The name of ... to the east. References External links *Official Site of Altair*citybrazil.com.br Municipalities in São Paulo (state) Populated places established in 1959 {{SaoPauloState-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tommyknockers
''The Tommyknockers'' is a 1987 science fiction novel by Stephen King. While maintaining a horror style, the novel is an excursion into the realm of science fiction for King, as the residents of the Maine town of Haven gradually fall under the influence of a mysterious object buried in the woods. King has since soured on ''The Tommyknockers'', describing it as "an awful book." Plot summary While walking in the woods near the small town of Haven, Maine, Roberta "Bobbi" Anderson, a writer of Wild West-themed fiction, stumbles upon a metal object that turns out to be a protrusion of a long-buried alien spacecraft. Once exposed, the spacecraft begins to release an invisible gas into the atmosphere that gradually transforms people into beings similar to the aliens who populated the ship. The transformation, or "becoming," provides them with a limited form of genius which makes them very inventive but does not provide any philosophical or ethical insight into their inventions. The spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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