A Proposal of a Life-Cycle for the Development of Sounding Rockets Missions by Felipe da Motta Silva, Leonel Fernando Perondi

“…Suborbital flight experiments, carried out through sounding rockets, have been employed for scientific and technological research since the beginning of the space age, in the late 1950s. …”
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Semionotiform fish from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania) by G. Arratia, H.-P. Schultze

“…The <i>Lepidotes</i> is a new species characterized by a combination of features such as the presence of scattered tubercles in cranial bones of adults, smooth ganoid scales, two suborbital bones, one row of infraorbital bones, non-tritoral teeth, hyomandibula with an anteriorly expanded membranous outgrowth, two extrascapular bones, two postcleithra, and the absence of fringing fulcra on all fins. …”
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Re-evaluation of the morphology and phylogeny of Diplocynodon levantinicum Huene & Nikoloff, 1963 and the stratigraphic age of the West Maritsa coal field (Upper Thrace Basin, Bulg... by Tobias Massonne, Madelaine Böhme

“…A comparison with other Diplocynodon species reveals D. levantinicum as a valid species, having (1) a long suborbital fenestra, (2) a very short dentary symphysis, (3) a large gap between the first and second dentary alveolus, (4) an occlusion pit in line with the tooth row posterior to the 14th dentary alveolus, (5) a sulcus lateral to the glenoid fossa and, (6) a lingual foramen for the articular artery situated entirely on the surangular. …”
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Biological aspects of an interesting fossil fish: Paramblypterus duvernoyi (Amblypteridae, Actinopterygii) by K. Dietze

“…Compared to most other lower actinopterygians, certain modified features regarding the suspensory apparatus, snout bones, gape, dermohyal and suborbital region, and palaloquadrate-maxillary chamber, are present in P. duvernyoi. …”
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Magnon dispersion, magnetization, and thermodynamic properties of 2D-Sc/GaAs diluted magnetic semiconductor (DMS) by Chernet Amente Geffe

“…It was presumed that the density of localized magnetic impurities can be controlled by taking into account the numerical stability with the number of holes required for mediation, and therefore, a scandium (Sc) dopant and its kind, which have a double functionality of creating holes and adding magnetic impurities from their 3d suborbital, are the best choice to replace those with higher spin magnetic moments. …”
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A new alligatoroid from the Eocene of Vietnam highlights an extinct Asian clade independent from extant Alligator sinensis by Tobias Massonne, Davit Vasilyan, Márton Rabi, Madelaine Böhme

“…The combined presence of an enlarged fifth maxillary tooth, prominent preorbital ridges, a large supraoccipital exposure on the skull table, a palatine-pterygoid suture anterior to the posterior end of the suborbital fenestra, and a pterygoid forming a neck surrounding the choana is unique to this species. …”
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Wavefront sensing in space: flight demonstration II of the PICTURE sounding rocket payload by Douglas, Ewan S, Mendillo, Christopher B, Cook, Timothy A, Cahoy, Kerri L, Chakrabarti, Supriya

“…A NASA sounding rocket for high-contrast imaging with a visible nulling coronagraph, the Planet Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Rocket Experiment (PICTURE) payload, has made two suborbital attempts to observe the warm dust disk inferred around Epsilon Eridani. …”
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Low-voltage Power Supply Subsystem for a Sub-Orbital Particle Physic Instrument by Hector Hugo Silva Lopez, Gustavo Adolfo Medina Tanco, Lauro Santiago Cruz

“…At a smaller scale and in suborbital flight, EUSO-Balloon integrates all the sub-systems of the full space JEM-EUSO telescope, allowing end-to-end testing of hardware and interfaces, and to probing the global detection chain and strategy, while improving at the same time our knowledge of atmospheric and terrestrial UV background. …”
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A new lower actinopterygian fish from the Upper Mississippian Bluefield Formation of West Virginia, USA by Kathryn E. Mickle

“…There is an anteriorly inclined hatchet-shaped preoperculum and six small suborbital bones anterior to the expanded region of this bone that filling the space between the preoperculum, dermosphenotic, and infraorbital. …”
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Distributional Range Extension of the Shallow Water Scorpionfish Parascorpaena poseidon (Perciformes: Scorpaenidae), with a Revised Diagnosis of the Species by Kentaro Mochizuki, Hiroyuki Motomura

“…A revised diagnosis for the species, determined from eastern Indian and western Pacific ocean specimens, is as follows: usually 16 or 17 (rarely 15) pectoral-fin rays; 43–49 scale rows in longitudinal series; 22–26 pored lateral-line scales; 6–8 (usually 7) scale rows between 6th dorsal-fin spine base and lateral line; 6–8 (usually 7) scale rows between last dorsal-fin spine base and lateral line; 4–6 + 7–9 + 1–3 = 14–17 gill rakers; penultimate dorsal-fin spine length 60.0%–83.3% of last dorsal-fin spine length; occipital pit fairly deep; suborbital bone with two ridges, origin of first posterior to origin of second, first with a single spine, second with two - all spines of equal size; supraocular tentacle absent or very short; base of dorsal-fin soft ray covered with small scales; head and body uniformly brown when fresh; all fins with randomly distributed blackish spots; membranes of spinous portion of dorsal fin without a distinct black blotch in males; body size relatively large, maximum recorded size 128.8 mm SL. …”

Habitat influences skeletal morphology and density in the snailfishes (family Liparidae) by M. E. Gerringer, A. S. Dias, A. A. von Hagel, J. W. Orr, A. P. Summers, S. Farina

“…Using depth data from the literature, we found that with increasing depth, the length of the dentary, neurocranium, and suborbital bones decreases. The ventral suction disk decreases width with increasing maximum habitat depth and is lost entirely in some deeper-living taxa, though not all. …”
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Osteichthyan Fishes from the uppermost Norian (Triassic) of the Fuchsberg near Seinstedt, Lower Saxony (Germany) by Hans-Peter Schultze, Gloria Arratia, Norbert Hauschke, Volker Wilde

“…<i>Seinstedtia parva</i> gen. et sp. nov. is described; although it was proposed as a possible semionotiform, this study reveals that <i>Seinstedtia</i> possesses a combination of teleosteomorph features, for instance: characteristic pholidophoriform-shaped cranial roof; fusion of skull roof bones; three dorso-posterior infraorbitals, including an enlarged infraorbital 3; one suborbital bone; movable premaxilla; and characteristic-shaped preopercle. …”
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Electromagnetic-launch-based method for cost-efficient space debris removal by Hou Chongyuan, Yang Yuan, Yang Yikang, Yang Kaizhong, Zhang Xiao, Lu Junyong

“…The DREL system has three components: a ground-based electromagnetic launcher (GEML), suborbital vehicle (SOV), and mass of micrometer-scale dust (MSD) particles. …”
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Functional activity of plasmid DNA after entry into the atmosphere of earth investigated by a new biomarker stability assay for ballistic spaceflight experiments. by Cora S Thiel, Svantje Tauber, Andreas Schütte, Burkhard Schmitz, Harald Nuesse, Ralf Moeller, Oliver Ullrich

“…We designed a robust functionality biomarker assay to analyze the biological effects of suborbital spaceflights prevailing during ballistic rocket flights. …”
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Dinocyst assemblage constraints on oceanographic and atmospheric processes in the eastern equatorial Atlantic over the last 44 kyr by W. Hardy, A. Penaud, F. Marret, G. Bayon, T. Marsset, L. Droz

“…Finally, this high-resolution dinocyst study permits us to precisely investigate the suborbital timing of the last glacial–interglacial termination, including an atypical warm and wet oceanic LGM signature, northern high-latitude abrupt climate change impacts in the equatorial eastern Atlantic, as well as a two-step decrease in moisture conditions during the Holocene at around 7–6 and 4–3.5 ka BP.…”
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A Proposal of a Life-Cycle for the Development of Sounding Rockets Missions by Felipe da Motta Silva, Leonel Fernando Perondi

“…Suborbital flight experiments, carried out through sounding rockets, have been employed for scientific and technological research since the beginning of the space age, in the late 1950s. …”
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Millennial-Scale Planktic Foraminifer Faunal Variability in the East China Sea during the Past 40000 Years (IMAGES MD012404 from the Okinawa Trough) by Yuan-Pin Chang, Wei-Lung Wang, Yusuke Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Matsuzaki, Hodaka Kawahata, Min-Te Chen

“…Low salinity in the ECS is inferred based on MD012404 fauna SST and planktic foraminifer oxygen isotope records for the cold millennial-scale intervals, pointing to the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and/or East Asian monsoon as important factors driving SST and salinity in the subtropical western Pacific, both on orbital and suborbital time scales.…”
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Freely suspended smectic films with in-plane temperature gradients by Ralf Stannarius, Torsten Trittel, Christoph Klopp, Alexey Eremin, Kirsten Harth, Noel A Clark, Cheol S Park, Joseph E Maclennan

“…We discuss several experimental geometries where macroscopic material transport is driven by temperature gradients, including experiments under normal gravity and observations in microgravitation during suborbital rocket flights and on the International Space Station. …”
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Millennial-Scale Planktic Foraminifer Faunal Variability in the East China Sea during the Past 40000 Years (IMAGES MD012404 from the Okinawa Trough) by Yuan-Pin Chang, Wei-Lung Wang, Yusuke Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Matsuzaki, Hodaka Kawahata, and Min-Te Chen

“…Low salinity in the ECS is inferred based on MD012404 fauna SST and planktic foraminifer oxygen isotope records for the cold millennial-scale intervals, pointing to the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and/or East Asian monsoon as important factors driving SST and salinity in the subtropical western Pacific, both on orbital and suborbital time scales.…”
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Hybrid rocket propulsion technology for space transportation revisited - propellant solutions and challenges by Adam Okninski, Wioleta Kopacz, Damian Kaniewski, Kamil Sobczak

“…Modern developments in sounding rockets, reusable suborbital systems and launch vehicles are discussed with particular focus on propellant technology. …”
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