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    There are many technology that would had help Christopher Columbus with his journey to Asia, however the main three are the global positioning system, the Concorde, and a submarine, therefore the main three technology would had help Christopher Columbus with his journey to Asia are global positioning system, the Concorde, and a submarine. If Columbus had a global positioning system, GPS, sea navigation would be much easier, considering the use of satellite technology to hone into the exact

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    capital. (PBS) Soon after, Benjamin began documenting his calculations and drawings through his almanacs. In 1792, he published his first almanac named Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Almanac and Ephemeris. In his almanac, it included his astronomical calculations, his ephemeris - “table of the positions of celestial bodies” - and other “commentaries, literature, and fillers that had a political and humanitarian purpose”. From 1792 through 1797, Benjamin continued writing almanacs - total

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    The Global Positioning System The global positioning system (GPS) is a satellite-based navigation system, consisting of a network of 24 orbiting satellites travelling on six different orbital paths. These satellites, referred to as NAVSTAR satellites, are constantly moving, making two complete orbits around earth per day. The first GPS satellite was launched in February, 1978. Satellites now weight approximately 1 tonne, and are about 5 metres across with extended

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    do have some suggestions to help in simplifying your MP and evaluating your results. To recap, you have three separate MP’s; the first is to setup your spacecraft and export the state vector as an ephemeris. Then the second MP is used to apply the Black Jack point solution data file to the ephemeris file using a Kalman Filter tool. The final MP then uses the Tracking Data Editor to generate a new Black Jack point solution data file from the original Black Jack point solution. Although,

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    Hi Clément, I’d be happy to help you. First, let me discuss using a SPICE file within FreeFlyer. The .bsp files are used to define the motion of FreeFlyer Spacecraft or Celestial Objects. It is not shown in your script snippet but I presume that you are loading the SPICE file to a Spacecraft. Once a SPICE file is loaded in FreeFlyer it does provide limited native functions for accessing and utilizing the file, but does not allow you to import the file in reference to Moon frames. Although, you can

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    Global Positioning Systems The possibilities for the future afforded to the human race by the technology created today is endless. However, one technology has already and will continue to change the way people travel around the planet: Global Positioning Systems (GPS). For travelers throughout history, figuring out where they were and where they were going was one of the oldest problems. Even in recent years, navigation and positioning was crucial to many activities but extremely cumbersome

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    Throughout the history of this great country of ours, African-Americans have had to deal with some pretty dark and unbearable times. But they prevailed through those times. A lot of greatness came out of the African-American community. They have contributed to our society in so many different ways and made major contributions to the mathematical, scientific, and engineering communities. Most people do not know that Africa is where both basic and advanced mathematics originated from. Thousands of

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    When Banneker was 22, he borrowed a pocket watch from a neighbor, took it apart, drew a picture of each component, put it back together, and then returned it. Banneker then proceeded to carve, out of wood, enlarged replicas of each part. Figuring out the proper number of teeth for each gear and the necessary relationships between the gears, he made a working wooden clock that kept accurate time and struck the hours for over 40 years until it was destroyed in a house fire. Soon after he made his

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    Ptolemy eventually devised an ancient form of nautical almanac or "ephemeris". Mathematics could now not only be used to predict but to demonstrate whether a particular theory was correct or not. Ptolemy developed several theories of his own contrary to the beliefs of many other Greek astrologers at the time.

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    The Whining Nigger and Benjamin Banneker

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    It is theorized that the phrase “angry Black man” is a social construct created during America’s Colonial period. It was supposedly used to negatively describe an African-American men who spoke out against what they considered to be an incongruous and xenophobic society and more specifically the institution of slavery. The phrase’s essence had been intentionally misconstrued. The three words together were said to have been used by whites as a dismissive tool; a method of sabotaging the validity of

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