Week5

NASA Licenses New Communication Technology for Unmanned Aircraft

NASA has developed technology that may enable large-scale unmanned aircraft to fly safely in the national airspace along with piloted aircraft.  The patent-pending integrated communications and control system is capable of collision warnings as well as real-time traffic and weather updates.

This communication system brings large unmanned aircraft a step closer to flying in the national airspace using the Federal Aviation Administration's, FAA, aircraft tracking system called the Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast, or ADS-B, which is to be mandated by the FAA for most aircraft by 2020.

NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate researchers have been working on technologies that would allow these unmanned aircraft to share the national air space with piloted aircraft through its program called Unmanned Aircraft Systems in the National Air Space or UAS in the NAS.

Center Director David McBride for NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, recently signed a license agreement with Vigilant Aerospace Systems of Oklahoma City.

"We are excited to enter into a license agreement with Vigilant Aerospace Systems allowing for the transfer and commercialization of the Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast System for Own-ship, under direct control of the pilot, and Traffic Situational Awareness technology," said Laura Fobel, chief of Armstrong's technology transfer office.

who: David McBride / Laura Fobel

when: Feb. 26, 2016

what:  unmanned aircraft

where: NASA

Keywords:
unmanned 無人操控的；無人的 adj.
commercialization 商業化 n.
tracking system 追蹤系統 n.
transfer 轉換 v. / n.

Week4

The Paris Agreement: Turning Point for a Climate Solution.

when:last2015

who:169 delegates

where:Paris, France

what:solve the problem of global climate change

Today marsolve the problemks an historic turning point in global action on climate change. At the UN Climate Conference in Paris, known as COP21, 196 countries joined together in theParis Agreement, a universal pact that sets the world on a course to a zero-carbon, resilient, prosperous and fair future. While the Agreement is not enough by itself to solve the problem, it places us clearly on the path to a truly global solution.

The Paris Agreement will maintain and accelerate that momentum. It offers clear direction with:

• long-term goals and signals,
• a commitment to return regularly to make climate action stronger,
• a response to the impact of extreme climate events on the most vulnerable,
• the transparency needed to ensure action takes place and
• finance, capacity building and technology to enable real change.

Keywords:

transparency 透明度 n.

capacity 能力；容量；資格 n.

commitment 承諾；獻身；委任 n.

accelerate 加速；加快 v.

momentum 動力 n.