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GE Investor Update

Steve Winoker
July 18, 2022
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Today is an exciting day for GE as we announced the new brand names for our three planned future companies: GE HealthCare, GE Vernova, and GE Aerospace.

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How Can We Fix The Space Junk Problem? A Net And A Harpoon, Say Aerospace Engineers 

May 15, 2017

Since man first ventured into the cosmos, space has been gradually filling up with space junk— remnants of old spacecraft, ejected pieces of equipment, parts of launch rockets and micro-fragments of glass and metal. This junk poses a real threat to our dependency on satellite services, but luckily Dr. Jason Forshaw, part of the RemoveDebris team, is launching one the world’s first missions to test space junk capturing technologies later this year. He explains what to expect.

 

 
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The Weekend Edition

NASA: Saturn's Moon Enceladus Has All the Basic Ingredients for Life

David Nield Science Alert
April 16, 2017
But there’s more. His team is planning to feed the AR’s visual information into a database and analyze it for insights with apps running on Predix. “I think the more we leverage augmented reality, the more data we can harvest out of our processes,” Beacham says. “The way the AR system works, it takes pictures as it goes. Those pictures provide data you can analyze and discover ways to further optimize your processes and insights about production that are hard to get otherwise.”
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The Whole Earth Catalog: Google Updates Its Planetary Picture Show

Tomas Kellner
December 08, 2016
AS: The computer consisted of three racks of equipment. Each rack was 2 feet wide and 7 feet tall. There was air conditioning at the bottom of each rack to cool it off because the circuits ran pretty warm. The memory could range from 8,000 to 16,000 20-bit words. It had an auxiliary memory that could go to 32,000 20-bit words. The computer interfaced with magnetic tapes, with punch cards and punch tapes, among other things.
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Keep Your Local Orbit Tidy: 2 Techniques For Tackling The Problem Of Space Junk

Jason Forshaw Research Fellow Ii University Of Surrey
July 22, 2016

Space debris, whether it's empty rocket casings or a dead satellites the size of a car, can pose risks to spacecraft. Researchers with the Surrey Space Centre at the University of Surrey present two scenarios for a litter-picking mission.

 

 

 
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Aerospace

How Innovation Is Helping Airlines Cut Carbon Emissions

David Melcher President And Ceo Of The Aerospace Industries Association
May 17, 2016

The aviation industry is undertaking a broad set of actions to curtail carbon emissions, says the head of the Aerospace Industries Association. Technology and operations advances, certification standards, biofuels and market-based measures will work in concert to achieve carbon-neutral growth starting in 2020.

 
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