unmanned surface vehicle Concepts

The Deepest Map

by Laura Trethewey · 15 May 2023

/saildrones.-journey-into-category-4-hurricane-uncovers-clue-into-rapidly-intensifying-storms. 4.Dongxiao Zhang et al., “Comparing Air-Sea Flux Measurements from a New Unmanned Surface Vehicle and Proven Platforms During the SPURS-2 Field Campaign,” Oceanography 32, no. 2 (June 2019): 122–33, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019

Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

by Paul Scharre · 23 Apr 2018 · 590pp · 152,595 words

in the loop when it comes to the actual engagement of an enemy.” But the spokesman also acknowledged that “under this swarming demonstration with multiple [unmanned surface vehicles], ONR did not study the specifics of how the human-in-the-loop works for rules of engagement.” OODA Loop The Navy’s fuzzy

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-armed-unmanned-surface-vessels/. 103 Singapore has purchased the Protector: “Protector Unmanned Surface Vessel, Israel,” naval-technology.com, http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/protector-unmanned-surface-vehicle/. 103 ESGRUM: “BAE ESGRUM USV,” NavalDrones.com, http://www.navaldrones.com/BAE-ESGRUM.html. 103 Only twenty-two nations have said they support: Campaign

The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency

by Annie Jacobsen · 14 Sep 2015 · 558pp · 164,627 words

’s vast weapon systems of the future will involve an entire army of drones. They will include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), unmanned ground systems (UGS), unmanned surface vehicles (USV), unmanned maritime systems (UMS), and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), weapons that reach from the depths of the ocean into outer space. At present

Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought A. I. To Google, Facebook, and the World

by Cade Metz · 15 Mar 2021 · 414pp · 109,622 words

this new gift, he had second thoughts, fearing the news would detract from an upcoming launch of a SpaceX rocket and its landing on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. Someone reminded him there were no reporters at the conference and that the attendees were under Chatham House Rules, meaning they

The Smartphone Society

by Nicole Aschoff

Trek fans say the smartphone is the real-life incarnation of the tricorder. Elon Musk, the tech entrepreneur who founded Tesla, named his two spaceport drone ships Just Read The Instructions and Of Course I Still Love You in tribute to the “Culture” novels by the science fiction great Iain M. Banks

Iain M Banks - The Culture complete works

by Iain M. Banks · 5,095pp · 1,429,463 words

some infor-mation. At most, and for all we know, our ship is still in there. I want to talk to it, maybe send a drone-ship in if it doesn’t reply. ~ Madness. This thing is welded into the grids, both directions. Know anything that can do that? Me neither. I

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said, climbing back on top of him. 10. Heavy Messing I Grief, nothing worked! The Fate Amenable To Change’s ordnance directed at the Elench drone ship just disappeared, snatched away to nowhere; it had to react quickly to deal with the collapsing wormholes as they slammed back, now endless, towards its

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I will be able to. Soon.” He buried his face in the fumes rising from the drug bowl, sucked in deeply. Yime looked at the drone. “Ship, are you still listening here?” “I am, Ms. Nsokyi. Hanging fascinated on every word.” “Mr. Nopri. There are how many on your team here – eighteen

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volunteered to get involved. They’d drawn lots for who got to pilot the twenty-four microships they could field. So far, two of the drone ships had been damaged but had managed to get back to base for repair. None of the humans had ended up dead/missing/injured. The humans

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them. “The No One Knows What The Dead Think then departed the Bulbitian’s atmospheric envelope,” Himerance continued, “but left behind a small high-stealth drone-ship which attempted to access the Bulbitian directly without permission, using smaller drones, knife and scout missiles, eDust and so on. All were destroyed. An attempt

Excession

by Iain M. Banks · 14 Jan 2011 · 298pp · 151,238 words

have some information. At most, and for all we know, our ship is still in there. I want to talk to it, maybe send a drone-ship in if it doesn't reply. ~ Madness. This thing is welded into the grids, both directions. Know anything that can do that? Me neither. I

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said, climbing back on top of him. 10. Heavy Messing I Grief, nothing worked! The Fate Amenable To Change's ordnance directed at the Elench drone ship just disappeared, snatched away to nowhere; it had to react quickly to deal with the collapsing wormholes as they slammed back, now endless, towards its

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

by Marc Goodman · 24 Feb 2015 · 677pp · 206,548 words

costing $3,000 each from different online sources. He paid for them with a PayPal account he had created under an alias and had the drones shipped to a storage facility in nearby Framingham that he had rented, paying cash. There Ferdaus began covertly assembling the devices before moving on to the

Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race

by Tim Fernholz · 20 Mar 2018 · 328pp · 96,141 words

improved the computer algorithms guiding the rocket. During the previous mission, two months before, the rocket had landed—actually landed, standing upright—on the floating drone ship. But it was unbalanced, and observers watched the live video feed in dismay as it tipped over with agonizing slowness. The remaining propellant ignited spectacularly

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NASA Landed rocket boosters stack up in SpaceX’s hangar at Kennedy Space Center. Courtesy of SpaceX A SpaceX rocket attempts to land on a drone ship in 2015 . . . Courtesy of SpaceX . . . but an awkward touchdown results in an explosion. Courtesy of SpaceX A SpaceX Dragon capsule is recovered from the sea

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ICBMs, they have the ability to rotate and maneuver the rocket by altering the flow of air around it. The other debut was two autonomous drone ships—large barges capable of operating without human crew so that they could safely function as floating landing pads for the rocket booster. The company had

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“Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.” SpaceX shared videos of these misses on social media; the varied explosive attempts to land the Falcon 9 first stage on the drone ships would become iconic among SpaceX fans and employees, populating a blooper reel of rocket test disasters. The company’s decision to stream its launches live

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scheme they had battled Bezos for in the courts. In January and March of 2016, the company attempted to land two more boosters on the drone ships. The first, a comparatively easy flight to low earth orbit, almost went swimmingly, but one of the landing legs came unlocked and the rocket slowly

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their vehicle, playing with different ways to balance engine thrust and maneuverability while conserving propellant. Finally, in April 2016, SpaceX landed a booster on a drone ship following a mission to the International Space Station for NASA. Three more would follow suit after later launches, including two returning from high-velocity missions

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go,” a SpaceX engineer told observers. While the second stage coasted through space, the first stage met the atmosphere again. It was aiming for a drone ship, and its engines ignited again to slow its descent. On the video stream, viewers could see one of the grid fins burst into flames, and

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breaking off. As the booster plunged through the clouds, condensation covered the camera. Would the flames compromise the rocket’s ability to return to the drone ship, Of Course I Still Love You, waiting a few hundred miles out in the Atlantic Ocean? The camera on the vessel cut out as the

Elon Musk: A Mission to Save the World

by Anna Crowley Redding · 1 Jul 2019 · 190pp · 46,977 words

? SpaceX would also need a way to land over water. Elon’s answer to that was a drone ship, a remote-controlled landing pad. SpaceX needed two. The Atlantic would be covered by a drone ship named Just Read the Instructions and the Pacific by Of Course I Still Love You. Just Read the

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Instructions drone ship. (© SpaceX.) But to even set down a rocket safely on land, well, one SpaceX commentator described the

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machine symbiosis … oh, and two spaceships named Of Course I Still Love You and Just Read the Instructions. In 2018, Elon announced that a third drone ship under construction would be called A Shortfall of Gravitas, also inspired by the Culture series. STICK THE LANDING MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2015 8:29 p

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