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More than 500 rockets have been launched from Esrange since 1966. |
For information on individual rockets, see the List of rockets launched from Esrange. |
Esrange has six launchers: |
Since 1974, more than 500 high-altitude balloons have been launched from Esrange for research purposes. |
The launch pad can handle balloons with volumes exceeding 1 million cubic meters. |
The arctic latitude of Esrange makes it very suitable for communication with satellites in polar orbits. |
"Esrange Satellite Station" is part of a global network with stations in Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, Chile and Australia. |
This global network is managed from Esrange. |
"Esrange Satellite Station" emphasizes on data acquisition and processing for remote sensing and scientific missions as well as TT&C support. |
The station is often used in combination with SSC's "Inuvik Satellite Station" in northern Canada, to increase coverage opportunities for polar orbiting missions. |
"Esrange Satellite Station" includes six independent Telemetry Tracking & Command (TT&C) systems in S-Band (one with receive capability also in the UHF-Band), six multi-frequency receive antenna systems in S/X-Band and an operational building which houses reception system electronics and data processing equipment. |
Satellite services at Esrange began in 1978. |
A number of telecommunication satellites have been controlled through Esrange: |
Most research satellites of the Swedish space programme have received control commands through Esrange: |
The exception was controlled from SSC's laboratories in Solna outside Stockholm: |
Data have been received at Esrange from more than 50 satellites, including SPOT 1β5, Landsat 2β7, ERS 1β2 and Envisat. |
Future Imperfect |
"Future Imperfect" is the 82nd episode of the American science fiction television series "". |
It is the eighth episode of the . |
Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet crew of the Federation starship Enterprise-D. |
In this episode, during an away mission, Riker falls unconscious and awakens to discover that sixteen years have passed, and he is now captain of the "Enterprise". |
Having no memory whatsoever of the time that has passed, he begins to suspect that the future he finds himself in may not be real. |
Commander Riker's birthday celebration is interrupted as he, Geordi La Forge, and Worf are sent down to a huge cavern on Alpha Onias III, an uninhabited Class M planet, to investigate unusual readings. |
After their arrival, the cavern suddenly fills with toxic gases, and the three officers fall unconscious. |
Riker awakens in sick bay to find that sixteen years have passed. |
He is now Captain of the "Enterprise" with Data as his first officer, and Picard has been promoted to admiral, with Deanna Troi serving as his aide. |
Riker cannot remember any event after the Alpha Onias III mission, which Doctor Crusher explains is a side effect of a viral infection he contracted on the planet, and his memories of the intervening events may or may not return in time. |
Riker learns that he was married, is now widowed, and has a son (Chris Demetral) named Jean-Luc (named after Picard). |
He is further startled when Tomalak β a Romulan commander who was formerly an archenemy of the "Enterprise", now an ambassador β beams onto the ship to negotiate a peace treaty with the Federation. |
Despite Picard's reassurances, Riker is hesitant to reveal sensitive Starfleet information in negotiating the treaty. |
As Riker struggles to adjust to his new life, numerous inconsistencies arise. |
The "Enterprise" computer is uncharacteristically slow, numerous systems experience minor technical glitches, and Geordi is unable to correct the problems. |
Finally, Riker discovers that his late wife "Min" is Minuet, a fictional holodeck character he fell in love with (in the first-season episode "11001001"). |
Riker realizes that the entire "future" he has been experiencing is a charade and confronts Picard and Tomalak on the "Enterprise" bridge, with more inconsistencies arising as he does so, proving his suspicions. |
Suddenly, the false future fades away, revealing a Romulan holodeck. |
Commander Tomalak is revealed to be behind the simulation, the object of which was to trick Riker into giving away the location of a key Federation outpost. |
The Romulans, Tomalak explains, were fooled by the intensity of Riker's memories of Minuet and had incorporated her into their fantasy on the assumption that she was real. |
Riker is put in a holding area, where he meets the boy whose image the Romulans had used to create his "son". |
The boy identifies himself as "Ethan". |
Together, they manage to escape and briefly elude their Romulan guards. |
However, as the two are hiding from their pursuers, Ethan inadvertently refers to Tomalak as "Ambassador", instead of "Commander". |
Riker realizes that he is still in a simulation; confronting Ethan over it, he demands that the game end immediately and that he be allowed to leave. |
Everything disappears once more, leaving only Riker and Ethan back in the cavern on Alpha Onias III. |
Riker is then able to contact the ship and learns that Worf and La Forge had beamed up without incident, but the "Enterprise" was unable to locate him. |
After Riker advises the captain that he will presently report back after learning more about his situation, Ethan confesses that he had created the simulations, using sophisticated scanners to read his mind and create the "reality" they experienced. |
Ethan's planet had been attacked and his people killed; his mother had hidden him in the cavern for his own safety, with all the simulation equipment, before she died; and Ethan, all alone, had been yearning for "real" companionship. |
Realizing Ethan's intentions were not hostile, Riker offers him refuge on the "Enterprise". |
Ethan accepts Riker's offer and after Ethan reveals his true form as a grey-skinned insectoid alien named Barash, the two beam onto the ship. |
In 2017, "Popular Mechanics" said that "Future Imperfect" was one of the top ten 'most fun' episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation". |
In 2019, CBR rated "Future Imperfect" the 5th best 'holodeck' episode of the "Star Trek" franchise. |
In 2016, "Empire" ranked this the 26th best out of the top 50 episodes of all the 700 plus Star Trek television episodes. |
The character Minuet was previously introduced in 11001001 (S1E15, aired February 1, 1988). |
Eleanor Clitheroe |
Eleanor Ruth Clitheroe (born January 29, 1954) is a Canadian cleric and former businesswoman. |
She was president and CEO of Hydro One, a successor company to Ontario Hydro owned by the Province of Ontario. |
Born in Montreal, Quebec in 1954, Clitheroe earned her LL.B. |
from the University of Western Ontario (UWO) in 1977. |
In 1978 she earned her LL.M. |
from McGill University, and earned her M.B.A. from UWO in 1980's. |
In 2005, she obtained a M.Div., from Wycliffe College. |
Clitheroe is a candidate for a Ph.D. in Theology at University of Toronto. |
She articled at the Tory, Tory DesLauriers & Binnington law firm in Toronto, and worked for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. |
She was Ontario's deputy minister of finance under the New Democratic Party of Bob Rae from 1990 to 1993. |
She was then appointed a vice-president of Ontario Hydro. |
When it was reorganized into five companies, she was appointed president and CEO of Hydro One, from which she received over $2 million annual income and benefits in 2001. |
Her tenure as CEO ended in 2002 after scandal over money and management. |
In 2002, she was named Business Woman of the Year by the "National Post". |
From 2000 until 2004, she was chancellor of the University of Western Ontario. |
In 2005, she was ordained a deacon in the Anglican Church of Canada, and later that year, ordained a priest. |
She has been the Executive Director of Prison Fellowship Canada, leaving the position in 2013, and Padre to the Governor General's Horse Guards. |
She has been pastor at St. Luke's Anglican Church in Smithville, Ontario since 2008 and was awarded The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal. |
Clitheroe filed a lawsuit against the utility for severance compensation and increased pension after specific legislation limiting benefits at Hydro One was passed by the Progressive Conservative government. |
This lawsuit and appeals were dismissed. |
Charles Howard Hinton |
Charles Howard Hinton (1853, United Kingdom β 30 April 1907, Washington D.C., United States) was a British mathematician and writer of science fiction works titled "Scientific Romances". |
He was interested in higher dimensions, particularly the fourth dimension. |
He is known for coining the word "tesseract" and for his work on methods of visualising the geometry of higher dimensions. |
Hinton's father, James Hinton, was a surgeon and advocate of polygamy. |
Hinton taught at Cheltenham College while he studied at Balliol College, Oxford, where he obtained his B.A. |
in 1877. |
From 1880 to 1886, he taught at Uppingham School in Rutland, where Howard Candler, a friend of Edwin Abbott Abbott's, also taught. |
Hinton also received his M.A. |
from Oxford in 1886. |
In 1880 Hinton married Mary Ellen, daughter of Mary Everest Boole and George Boole, the founder of mathematical logic. |
The couple had four children: George (1882β1943), Eric (*1884), William (1886β1909) and Sebastian (1887β1923) inventor of the Jungle gym. |
In 1883 he went through a marriage ceremony with Maud Florence, by whom he had had twin children, under the assumed identity of John Weldon. |
He was subsequently convicted of bigamy and spent three days in prison, losing his job at Uppingham. |
His father James Hinton was a radical advocate of polygamous relationships, and according to Charles' mother James had once remarked to her: "Christ was the saviour of Men but I am the saviour of Women and I don't envy him a bit." |
In 1887 Charles moved with Mary Ellen to Japan to work in a mission before accepting a job as headmaster of the Victoria Public School. |
In 1893 he sailed to the United States on the SS "Tacoma" to take up a post at Princeton University as an instructor in mathematics. |
In 1897, he designed a gunpowder-powered baseball pitching machine for the Princeton baseball team's batting practice. |
The machine was versatile, capable of variable speeds with an adjustable breech size, and firing curve balls by the use of two rubber-coated steel fingers at the muzzle of the pitcher. |
He successfully introduced the machine to the University of Minnesota, where Hinton worked as an assistant professor until 1900, when he resigned to move to the U.S. |
Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. |
At the end of his life, Hinton worked as an examiner of chemical patents for the United States Patent Office. |
At age 54, he died unexpectedly of a cerebral hemorrhage on 30 April 1907. |
After Hinton's sudden death his wife, Mary Ellen, committed suicide in Washington, D.C. in May 1908. |
In an 1880 article entitled "", Hinton suggested that points moving around in three dimensions might be imagined as successive cross-sections of a static four-dimensional arrangement of lines passing through a three-dimensional plane, an idea that anticipated the notion of world lines. |
Hinton's explorations of higher space had a moral basis: |
Hinton created several new words to describe elements in the fourth dimension. |
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