SHARP, short for Stationary High Altitude Relay Platform, was an experimental aircraft using beam-powered propulsion designed by the Communications Research...

Publishing Stationary High Altitude Relay Platform, a 1980s beamed-power aircraft Super High Altitude Research Project, a 1990s project to develop a high-velocity...

Center developed a small prototype airplane called Stationary High Altitude Relay Platform (SHARP) to relay telecommunication data between points on earth...

a weight of 4.5 kilograms (9.9 pounds), as part of the Stationary High Altitude Relay Platform (SHARP) project. The SHARP UAV flew in a circle at 150...

Brothers Aviation FBA-2A (Currently in storage.) SHARP (Stationary High-Altitude Relay Platform) Stinson Reliant UFM Easy Riser ultralight UTIAS Ornithopter...

Communications Research Centre, and was called SHARP (Stationary High-Altitude Relay Platform). The DeLaurier lab, along with Jeremy M. Harris, designed...

extensively, publishing design and feasibility studies. 1987: Stationary High Altitude Relay Platform a Canadian experiment 1995–1997: NASA conducts a "Fresh...

lower than in satellite Internet access. Commercialization of space High-altitude platform station History of telecommunication Inter-satellite communications...

the United States Air Force (USAF). It is used as a high-altitude long endurance (HALE) platform covering the spectrum of intelligence collection capability...

the high launch cost to space, most satellites are designed to be as lightweight and robust as possible. Most communication satellites are radio relay stations...

moving or fixed target, whereas a GOLIS weapon is limited to a stationary or near-stationary target. The trajectory that a missile takes while attacking...

suggestions on this issue. There are some advantages of geo-stationary satellites: Get high temporal resolution data. Tracking of the satellite by its...

orbit the Earth above the equator at altitudes of 35,880 km (22,300 miles). Because of this orbit, they remain stationary with respect to the rotating Earth...

center of the disk, no net motion is imparted; the output shaft remains stationary. As the carriage moves the bearing away from the center and towards the...

higher altitudes has always been desired. That has led to a series of increasingly sophisticated bombsight designs dedicated to high-altitude level bombing...

long-duration high altitude uncrewed aircraft or balloons, perhaps designed to serve – like satellites do today – as communication relays, science platforms, or...

existing platform based on geostationary orbit satellites. A proposed alternative to relay satellites is a special-purpose high altitude platform stations...

an angular rate that is faster than orbital velocity at that altitude, stationary platforms can be supported by the excess centripetal acceleration of the...

reconnaissance (ISR) platform, as its cameras are for viewing targets instead of recon. It meets the need for squads and platoons that lack high-level intelligence...

docking and berthing ports. The ISS maintains an orbit with an average altitude of 400 kilometres (250 mi) and circles the Earth in roughly 93 minutes...

second (160 ft/s). In 1933, Texan inventor Virgil Rigsby developed a stationary coil gun that was designed to be used similarly to a machine gun. It was...

messages are limited to 160 alphanumeric characters. Microwave relay – a long-distance high bandwidth point-to-point digital data transmission link consisting...

rotate as well (the engine inertia will keep the carrier gear stationary unless the speed is high), while MG1 is free to rotate while the batteries do not...

California. She used the International Space Station's own treadmill and stationary bike, and for the swimming portion of the race, she used the Advanced...

is able to fire on the move using 30 mm cannons, although it must be stationary to fire missiles. The maximum target speed can be up to 500 metres per...

and drive sheave or at the end of the drive sheave to hold the elevator stationary at a floor. This brake is usually an external drum type and is actuated...

microwave relay; the towers lost their platforms in the 1970s. RAF Stenigot in Lincolnshire has another, almost complete tower, without its top platforms; it...

the mission and relayed InSight's telemetry in real time. The success of the MarCO spacecraft proved the viability of the cubesat platform for deep space...

typical with most other missiles, range at lower altitude may be as little as one third that of high altitude. In the Vietnam air war radar missile kill reliability...

installation on small ships like offshore patrol vessels, corvettes, and even stationary oil rigs. In the very early stages of concept development, Rafael estimated...