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Opals (other)
Opals are gemstones. Opals may also refer to: *OPALS, space experiment *Australia women's national basketball team * Opal's Steak House *OPALS Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) is a spacecraft communication instrument developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory that was tested on the International Space Station (ISS) from 18 April 2014 to 17 July 2014 to demonstrate the t ..., Ogren Plant Allergy Scale See also * Opal (other) * Opel (other) * Opalski cells {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opals
Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) is a spacecraft communication instrument developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory that was tested on the International Space Station (ISS) from 18 April 2014 to 17 July 2014 to demonstrate the technology for laser communications systems between spacecraft and ground stations. The purpose of OPALS is to do research into replacing traditional radio-frequency (RF) communications which are currently used on spacecraft. This will allow spacecraft to increase the rate at which data is downlinked by 10 to 100 times. It also will have less error than RF communication. It launched from Cape Canaveral to the ISS on 18 April 2014 on a Falcon 9 SpaceX CRS-3 Dragon capsule resupply. The experiment used commercial products rather than space qualified components. Science objectives The goal of the OPALS mission was to demonstrate a downlink of a short video from space using laser communication. In doing so, the following was studie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia Women's National Basketball Team
The Australian women's national basketball team is nicknamed the Opals, after the brightly coloured gemstone common to the country. From 1994 onwards, the Opals have been consistently competitive and successful having won nine medals at official FIBA international tournaments (Olympics and World Cups), highlighted by a gold medal winning performance at the 2006 World Championship in Brazil.FIBA Archive. 2006 World Championship: Tournament for WomenEvent Standings Retrieved 12 August 2012. At the now-defunct regional Oceania Championship for Women, the Opals won 15 titles.FIBA Archive. 2011 FIBA Oceania Championship for WomenHistory Retrieved 7 September 2012. Effective in 2017, FIBA combined its Oceanian and Asian zones for official senior competitions; following this change, the Opals compete in the FIBA Women's Asia Cup. History 1950-60s: Beginnings Basketball arrived in Melbourne in 1905, but the first major international women's tournament was the 1953 FIBA World C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opal's Steak House
Opal's Steak House is a historic building located at 871 Park Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Opal's Steak House was constructed between 1946 and 1948 to serve tourists visiting the thermal springs in Hot Springs; its location on Park Avenue served travelers on nearby U.S. Route 70, the main highway between Little Rock and Hot Springs. The building was constructed in the Art Moderne style, which is visible in its curved stucco facade and horizontal features. In 1952, the restaurant changed its name to the Golden Drumstick Restaurant; the building has since served as a clothing store, a furniture store, and a laundromat. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artist ... on February 11, 2004. References Commerci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OPALS (Ogren Plant Allergy Scale)
The Ogren Plant Allergy Scale (OPALS) is an allergy rating system for plants that measures the potential of a plant to cause allergic reactions in humans. Scale system The OPALS allergy scale was first published in ''Allergy-Free Gardening'', by Thomas Leo Ogren, in 2000. It covers over 3,000 common trees, shrubs, flowers, and grasses. The allergy scale was updated and extended in 2015 in ''The Allergy-Fighting Garden''. The Ogren Plant Allergy Scale takes into account pollen allergies, contact allergies, and odor allergies, with higher weighting given to pollen allergies that are caused by inhaling pollen into the lungs. Additionally, plants that cause contact allergies (such as rashes or itching), or that are highly poisonous when ingested even though their pollen does not cause respiratory allergies, are never given low ratings. Low allergy ratings are considered to be 1 through 3 on the allergy scale. Mid-range ratings are 4 through 6, and high ratings are 7 through 10. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opal (other)
Opal is a gemstone. Opal or OPAL may also refer to: Places Canada * Opal, Alberta * Opal Hills, Jasper National Park, Alberta * Opal Cone, a volcano in British Columbia United States * Opal, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Opal, South Dakota, an unincorporated community * Opal, Virginia, a census-designated place * Opal, Wyoming, a town Science and technology Biology and medicine * Opal (apple), a variety of apple produced by crossing Golden Delicious and Topaz varieties * Opal (butterfly), common name for the butterfly genus ''Chrysoritis'' * Omeprazole or Opal, a drug * Opal phytolith, a rigid microscopic body that occurs in many plants * Opal, a stop codon * Open Air Laboratories, an initiative in England to get the public more involved with nature Computing * OPAL (software) (Open Physics Abstraction Layer), a real-time physics engine * Opal programming language, developed at the Technical University of Berlin * Open Phone Abstraction Library (OPAL), a fork of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opel (other)
Opel is a German car manufacturer. Opel may also refer to: * OPEL Networks, a former Australian telecommunications provider * ''Opel'' (album), an album by musician Syd Barrett People *Adam Opel (1837–1895), founder of Opel, the company *Adolf Opel (1935–2018), Austrian writer, filmmaker, and editor * Barbara Opel (born 1963), American caretaker and criminal *Carl von Opel (1869–1927), co-founder of Opel *Friedrich Opel (1875–1938), German cyclist, race car driver and industrial engineer *Fritz von Opel (1899–1971), German automotive engineer *Georg von Opel (born 1966), great-grandson of Adam Opel *Hans von Opel (1889–1948), son of Carl von Opel *Jackie Opel (1938–1970), Barbadian singer * John R. Opel (1925–2011), U.S. computer businessman *Nancy Opel (born c. 1957), American singer, actress, and teacher *Rikky von Opel (born 1947), Liechtenstein racing driver *Robert Opel (1939–1979), American photographer *Sophie Opel (1840–1913), industrialist and wife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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