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When the cloud's maximum altitude was less than 5km (3 miles), ATDnet detected no lightning from it.
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On release, SS2 will then ignite a rocket engine to climb to a maximum altitude of about 361, 000ft (110km).
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Computer modelling of the impact suggests that the plume will reach a maximum altitude of 500km about 17 minutes after the impact.
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The number of strikes went up as the maximum altitude increased.
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Cessna expects it to have the same maximum altitude of its predecessor at 51, 000 feet, allowing it to fly above commercial air traffic and adverse weather.
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It offers remarkable fuel efficiency--more on that in a minute--but the tradeoff is that it takes 27 minutes to get from sea level to 41, 000 feet, which is both the Mustang's maximum operating altitude and its most fuel-efficient.
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The second drone, an insect-like quadrotor called Parc, is designed for higher flying missions thanks to its larger size and maximum 1, 000-foot altitude.
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"Because the maximum thickness of these small, low-altitude glaciers rarely exceeds 40 metres, with such an annual loss they will probably completely disappear within the coming decades, " said lead author Antoine Rabatel, from the Laboratory for Glaciology and Environmental Geophysics in Grenoble, France.
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