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The Prospero satellite, also known as the X-3, [2] was launched by the United Kingdom in 1971. It was designed to undertake a series of experiments to study the effects of the space environment on communications satellites and remained operational until 1973, after which it was contacted annually for over 25 years. [ 3 ]
Prospero's 'our revels now are ended' speech, is recited by Anton Lesser to play out the final episode of Endeavour, the prequel to Inspector Morse. In the 2023 dystopian novel The Ferryman by Justin Cronin, the setting is an archipelago named Prospera. Prospero's speeches are quoted several times throughout the novel.
Black Arrow model. The High Down Rocket Test Site is a former Rocket Testing facility on High Down near The Needles. [1] [2] [3]The remains of the High Down Test Site are a rare example of a 1950s British rocket test facility, built at a time when the country was amongst a handful of nations at the forefront of rocket and missile technology.
The deployment is the subject of Australian Pirate Patrol, a four-episode documentary series produced by Prospero Productions, and first aired on the National Geographic Channel on 18 October 2010. [24] [25] In early April 2013, Toowoomba operated with the U.S. Navy's Carrier Strike Group Three in the South China Sea. [26]
Prospero is a relatively small retrograde irregular satellite of Uranus discovered on 18 July 1999 by the astrophysicist Matthew Holman and his team, and given the provisional designation S/1999 U 3. Confirmed as Uranus XVIII it was named after the sorcerer Prospero in William Shakespeare 's play The Tempest .
The Mirandola Biomedical District (Italian: Distretto biomedicale di Mirandola) [1] is an industrial district in the biomedical engineering, specialised in the production of medical devices such as equipment and disposable products for therapeutic applications, located in the Mirandola area and in some neighbouring municipalities such as Medolla, Concordia sulla Secchia, Cavezzo, San Felice ...
Prospero Provana of his own coat of arms (born around 1520, died on 20 September 1584 in Kraków) was an Italian nobleman from Piedmont, a merchant, and banker in Kraków. He served as the first postmaster of the royal post in Poland (1558–1562), royal secretary to Sigismund Augustus (1570), non-castle starosta of Będzin , and żupnik in ...
The NVA were supplied with several examples of the tank from China and used them during the Vietnam War, but only a small number were available due to the lack of adequate anti-aircraft equipment. [2] It remained in service with the post-war People's Army of Vietnam, as well as the PLA, with the last numbers being retired in 1990. [5]