• The Sirius 1 Solar Power Station, is an 86 MW solar power station in South Africa. The power station was developed by a joint venture between Aurora Power...
    8 KB (656 words) - 12:59, 18 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of power stations in South Africa
    (PTY) LTD 75MW Solar PV Power Plant" (PDF). Retrieved 18 April 2015. "Scoping phase public meeting" (PDF). "NERSA Public Hearing Sirius Solar PV Project One...
    115 KB (4,207 words) - 13:34, 19 November 2024
  • has interests in two other solar farms in the Upington Solar Complex. The other two are (a) Sirius 1 Solar Power Station (86 MW), that was commissioned...
    7 KB (558 words) - 08:36, 13 February 2024
  • 15, 2006). "The biggest explosion in our solar system". Ars Technica. Retrieved September 13, 2018. "Sirius Data". January 6, 2024. Archived from the...
    55 KB (2,726 words) - 04:07, 11 September 2024
  • Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. was a satellite radio (SDARS) and online radio service operating in North America, owned by Sirius XM Holdings. Headquartered...
    69 KB (8,448 words) - 13:22, 16 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sun
    Sun (redirect from Solar diameter)
    The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion...
    165 KB (18,112 words) - 01:49, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for XM Satellite Radio
    XM Satellite Radio (redirect from XM-1 ROLL)
    competitor Sirius Satellite Radio formally completed their merger, following U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval, forming Sirius XM Radio...
    48 KB (5,652 words) - 17:22, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Order of the Solar Temple
    that, upon death, they would acquire "solar bodies" in a faraway location in space (typically given as the star Sirius, but alternatively Jupiter or Venus)...
    75 KB (10,424 words) - 01:04, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar sail
    Solar sails (also known as lightsails, light sails, and photon sails) are a method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight...
    98 KB (11,565 words) - 11:49, 2 November 2024
  • term". They declared that, upon death, they would acquire "solar bodies" on the star Sirius (though members also gave Jupiter or Venus as an alternative...
    60 KB (7,944 words) - 00:59, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tundra orbit
    of 46,000 kilometres (29,000 mi). From 2000 to 2016, Sirius Satellite Radio, now part of Sirius XM Holdings, operated a constellation of three satellites...
    17 KB (1,703 words) - 23:55, 24 October 2024
  • Screamers: The Hunting (category Template film date with 1 release date)
    communication from Sirius 6B in the ensuing years until the emergency SOS was received. Specialist Rafe Danielli says that in 6 days Sirius 6B will encounter...
    14 KB (1,897 words) - 14:11, 22 October 2024
  • December 2011. Calculated: 1/2 × 7.26 kg × (14.7 m/s)2 = 784 J Kopp, G.; Lean, J. L. (2011). "A new, lower value of total solar irradiance: Evidence and...
    140 KB (9,736 words) - 22:00, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Orders of magnitude (length)
    1 parsec 39.9 Pm – 4.22 light-years – distance to Proxima Centauri (nearest star to Sun) 81.3 Pm – 8.59 light-years – distance to Sirius 94.6 Pm – 1 light-decade...
    187 KB (17,736 words) - 12:10, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Norman Lockyer
    he found an orientation of temples to sunrise at midsummer and towards Sirius. Assuming orientation of the Heel-Stone of Stonehenge to sunrise at midsummer...
    19 KB (1,673 words) - 05:29, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Voyager 2
    Voyager 2 (category Spacecraft escaping the Solar System)
    spacecraft to achieve Solar escape velocity, which allowed it to leave the Solar System. Launched 16 days before its twin Voyager 1, the primary mission...
    94 KB (6,852 words) - 08:32, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Magnitude (astronomy)
    magnitude of −27 and Sirius, the brightest visible star in the night sky, −1.46. Venus at its brightest is -5. The International Space Station (ISS) sometimes...
    26 KB (2,920 words) - 02:31, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches (2020–2022)
    from the original on 1 October 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2021. "SpaceX launches CRS-22, new solar arrays to International Space Station". NASASpaceFlight.com...
    287 KB (12,624 words) - 06:28, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Medium Earth orbit
    high latitudes. This orbit was used by the (now defunct) North American Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio satellites and the Russian Molniya...
    10 KB (1,037 words) - 23:27, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Milford, Delaware
    to the Milford Solar Farm, a 15 MW, 80 acre solar power farm owned by the Public Service Enterprise Group and is the largest solar power farm in Delaware...
    23 KB (1,843 words) - 12:00, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Interstellar travel
    spacecraft between star systems. Due to the vast distances between the Solar System and nearby stars, interstellar travel is not practicable with current...
    94 KB (9,986 words) - 13:49, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Drax Group
    assets to be divested, and so in 1999 Drax Power Station was acquired by the US-based AES Corporation for £1.87 billion (US$3 billion). A partial re-financing...
    17 KB (1,729 words) - 17:13, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sun in fiction
    in the form of solar power and superpowers. The solar wind is also used for propulsion by spacecraft equipped with solar sails. Solar eclipses have appeared...
    77 KB (6,767 words) - 18:30, 27 October 2024
  • inserts Arcturus; Carsten Niebuhr (1733–1815) understood Kesil to mean Sirius; Thomas Hyde (1636–1703) held that it indicated Canopus. Now kesil signifies...
    14 KB (1,969 words) - 04:12, 4 November 2024
  • G1, SIRIUS FM-6 and SES NEW SKIES NSS-12. As of September 2015[update] there were 80 satellites based on the 1300 series platform on orbit, with 1 more...
    11 KB (1,026 words) - 13:44, 23 October 2024
  • Department of Magical Law Enforcement when Voldemort first came to power. He sent Sirius Black to the wizard prison Azkaban without a trial. Crouch appeared...
    47 KB (5,525 words) - 00:44, 17 November 2024
  • transmitter power, weigh 6,700 kg, and require a 5-meter diameter launch fairing. SSL stated that they would use electric propulsion for North-South station keeping...
    34 KB (686 words) - 02:53, 2 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geosynchronous orbit
    needed to provide continuous coverage over an area. It was used by the Sirius XM Satellite Radio to improve signal strength in the northern US and Canada...
    33 KB (3,226 words) - 04:30, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Extraterrestrial sky
    between the not much shifted Sirius and Belt of Orion compared to in the sky of Earth. Conversely the Sun would appear from Sirius and also Procyon around...
    52 KB (6,264 words) - 19:34, 13 November 2024
  • a commitment to solar power in the 1970s. Oprah Radio began to run DarynKagan.com content each day beginning in March 2009 on SIRIUS XM radio. Kagan sees...
    12 KB (1,145 words) - 19:07, 11 November 2024