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LAS VEGAS, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Players Network (OTC-QB Bulletin Board: PNTV) announced today that it is in production on its first Feature Film Documentary. "The Last Showgirl" celebrates the sexy entertainment icons who strutted across Las Vegas' stages wearing miniscule, bangled costumes, and massive, feathered headdresses. These beautiful, statuesque women were literally the symbol of Las Vegas for five decades. But in recent years they have faded away, a cliche more...
Brendan Brazier, vegan, Ironman champion and best-selling author on plant-based nutrition, and Peggy Kotsopoulos, Team Vega’s registered holistic nutritionist and health educator, offer advice on how to stay cool naturally. Burnaby, BC (PRWEB) July 09, 2012 Two experts from Vega – the leading plant-based, natural health and performance products company – are offering tips to beat the summer heat, naturally. Brendan Brazier, vegan, Ironman champion and best-selling author on...
Brendan Brazier, professional Ironman tri-athlete and formulator of Vega’s plant-based, natural health and performance products, has been chosen to serve as a contributing expert on the International Golf Performance Institute Council. Burnaby, BC (PRWEB) July 03, 2012 Brendan Brazier, professional Ironman tri-athlete and formulator of Vega’s plant-based, natural health and performance products, has been chosen to serve as a contributing expert on the International Golf Performance...
COLUMBIA, Md., June 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Personal and portable measurement as provided by the Arbitron Portable People Meter(TM) (PPM(®)) ratings service indicates that all three legs of the Triple Crown, broadcast on NBC, delivered significantly higher out-of-home audiences than seen during typical a Saturday/Sunday afternoon. Persons In home Out of home % Out of Home % Out of Home 18+...
When Vega VV01 launched into orbit on February 13, 2012, it took with it some of the ESA’s most tested materials as well as a good amount of teamwork. The first of Europe’s Vega rockets is a brand new design based on some new techniques and technologies. Getting all of these designs and implementations through the air and into orbit called for plenty of teamwork as well as rigorous technical risk management by the ESA’s specialists. Vega VV01 will be used to haul small to medium...
Monday's successful maiden flight of ESA’s new Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, opens a new set of launch services – including two of the Sentinel satellites for GMES. According to contracts signed in December, Arianespace will launch Sentinel-2B and Sentinel-3B on this new light launcher. These launches are foreseen in 2014–15. The Sentinel missions are based on a constellation of two satellites to maximize coverage of Earth. The two to be launched...
The first satellites entirely designed and built by Hungary, Poland, and Romania are now orbiting Earth after today’s successful maiden flight of ESA's small Vega launcher. The latest addition to Europe’s versatile family of space launchers, Vega carried nine satellites, seven of them built by European universities. This group of ESA-sponsored educational CubeSats included Goliat from Romania, PW-Sat from Poland and Masat-1 from Hungary. The unique opportunity to launch the first...
[ Watch the Launch Replay ] The European Space Agency's (ESA) Vega launch vehicle successfully lifted off from the ground this morning. The new launch vehicle is ready to operate alongside the Ariane 5 and Soyuz launchers after Monday's qualification flight in Kourou, French Guiana. ESA said that with this launch being successful, Europe now covers the full range of launch needs, including small science and Earth observation satellites, to missions like resupplying the International...
Join us for the first qualification flight of the Vega launch vehicle on Monday 13 February, with a launch window open from 11:00 to 12:30 CET (10:00 to 11:30 GMT). Vega will lift off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, to release nine satellites into orbit and add a new capability to Europe's fleet of launch systems. Live transmission starts at 10:40 CET. The payload consists of two Italian satellites – ASI’s LARES laser relativity satellite and the University of...
ESA’s new Vega rocket is now fully assembled on its launch pad. Final preparations are in full swing for the rocket’s inaugural flight from Europe’s Spaceport. The launch window opens on 9 February. The upper composite, comprising LARES, ALMASat-1, seven CubeSats, the payload adapter and the fairing, was moved to the pad late Monday night. A night transfer is the standard practice in Kourou to avoid overheating the payloads. The move ended early Tuesday morning with its...
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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (April 15, 1793 "“ November 23, 1864) was a Baltic-German astronomer, and member of a celebrated line of astronomers. He is best known for his advanced observations of double-stars. He was born in Altona, Denmark, what is currently Germany. He was the son of the renowned Jacob Struve, and was the second of a five-generation legacy of astronomers down to his great-grandchildren. When Germany was occupied by the French, Struve's father, Jacob,...
Lyra Constellation -- Lyra (the lyre) is a prominent, although fairly small, northern constellation. It was one of Ptolemy's 48 constellations, and also counts among the modern 88 constellations. Its brightest star is Vega (Alpha Lyrae), which together with Altair (Alpha Aquilae) and Deneb (Alpha Cygni) forms the large asterism known as the Summer Triangle. Beta Lyr is a half separated (i.e. one of the stars reached its Rochevolume) eclipsing binary of a cream-white colour. The...
Cygnus Constellation -- Cygnus (the swan) is a northern constellation. It was one of Ptolemy's 48 constellations, and is also one of the 88 modern constellations. Because of the pattern of its main stars, it is sometimes called the Northern Cross (in contrast to the Southern Cross). The bird extends over the summer Milky Way, appearing to fly south. Notable features Cygnus contains several bright stars. Deneb, α Cygni, is an extremely brilliant star, very prominent...
Vega -- Vega (Alpha Lyrae) is the lead star in the constellation Lyra, reaching near directly overhead the mid-northern latitudes, during the summer. It's a "nearby star" at only 25 light years distant and together with Arcturus and Sirius, one of the brightest stars in the Sun's neighbourhood. Vega is a vertex of the Summer Triangle. Its spectral class is A0V (Sirius, an A1V, is slightly less powerful) and it's firmly in the main sequence, fusing hydrogen to helium in its core....
