Word: payloads
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...With its cargo considered too delicate for a hard landing, helicopters manned by stunt pilots were deployed to snare the craft as it drifted down?but the parachute mishap meant the saucer-shaped ship plummeted to Earth at almost 320 km/h. NASA researchers hope to recover much of the payload, about the weight of a few grains of salt, from the wreckage...
...point a pyrotechnic blast will fire a pin across the mouth of the hook, sealing it around the cable; finally, a winch will spool the cable out a bit, reducing the jolt on the helicopter. "It's a smooth transition in the mid-air retrieval," says Brian Johnson, the payload master aboard the chopper...
...Bette Set weighs upwards of 113,000 pounds—no problem for the Pepsi rafters under normal conditions—but the snow added another 76,000 pounds to the roof. That would have resulted in an excessive payload. So no Bette...
...even elsewhere in the universe. Hence the name, inspired by the Rosetta Stone, the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics. Rosetta is an ambitious and technically challenging mission. It will not be easy to keep a rendezvous in 2014 with a comet tearing through space near Jupiter. The 165-kg-payload orbiter is to chase, circle and remotely study the comet, as well as dispatch a 100-kg lander onto its surface for closer analysis. If the j1 billion mission succeeds, scientists say it will be a major step toward improving human understanding of the origin of the sun, Earth...
...even if the package had delivered its underwhelming payload, it’s hard to imagine its sparkle enlivening the Yale Bowl for long. When it comes down to it, Yale is a lot like the Soviet Union. And it’s not just New Haven’s corroding concrete and dirty smokestacks or the school’s blatant anti-Harvard propaganda and horrifically poor labor relations that make it that way. It’s that Yale can’t hope to compete with a real superpower, especially when its little bundle of perestroika...