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ViZDoom Competitions: Playing Doom from Pixels
, 2018 This paper presents the first two editions of Visual Doom AI Competition, held in 2016 and 2017. The challenge was to create bots that compete in a multi-player deathmatch in a first-person shooter (FPS) game, Doom.
Jaśkowski, Wojciech +2 more
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From Wallops Island to Project Mercury, 1945 - 1958: A memoir [PDF]
Research is described which was conducted at the Wallops Island Missile Range (operated by the old National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics).
Gilruth, R. R.
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Russian and Chinese Responses to U.S. Military Plans in Space [PDF]
, 2008 Explores what countermeasures China and Russia are likely to take if the United States continues to pursue the weaponization of space, and what the broader implications for international security will ...
Hui Zhang, Pavel Podvig
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On the history of the development of solid-propellant rockets in the Soviet Union [PDF]
Pre-World War II Soviet solid-propellant rocket technology is reviewed. Research and development regarding solid composite preparations of pyroxyline TNT powder is described, as well as early work on rocket loading calculations, problems of flight ...
Pobedonostsev, Y. A.
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Rocket-triggered lightning strikes and forest fire ignition [PDF]
Background information on the rocket-triggered lightning project at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), a summary of the forecasting problem there, the facilities and equipment available for undertaking field experiments at KSC, previous research activity ...
Fenner, James H.
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Analysis of carbon nano particle variant as the propellant fuel to increase specific impulses of rockets. [PDF]
F1000Res, 2023 Navalino R, Muda N, Hafizah M, Ruyat Y.
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Capable companies or changing markets? Explaining the export performance of firms in the defence industry [PDF]
The paper carries out an empirical analysis of the factors explaining the export performance of firms in the defence sector. We focus on the case of Norway, and make use of two complementary methodologies: the first is based on quantitative firm-level ...
Castellacci, Fulvio, Fevolden, Arne
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Maintaining technical excellence requires a national plan [PDF]
To meet the challenge of technical excellence, AIA established a rocket propulsion committee to develop the National Rocket Propulsion Strategic Plan. Developing such a plan required a broad spectrum of experience and disciplines. The Strategic Plan team
Davidson, T. F.
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Advanced power sources for space missions [PDF]
Approaches to satisfying the power requirements of space-based Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) missions are studied. The power requirements for non-SDI military space missions and for civil space missions of the National Aeronautics and Space ...
Burkes, Tommy R. +9 more
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Asteroid Deflection: How, where and when?
, 2007 To deflect impact-trajectory of massive km^3 and spinning asteroid by a few terrestrial radius one need a large momentum exchange. The dragging of huge spinning bodies in space by external engine seems difficult or impossible.
Fargion, D.
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