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HS-376

HS-376 is a spin-stabilized commercial communications satellite bus built by Hughes, carrying data, voice, and television; 58 satellites using it were launched between 1980 and 2003.

HS-601

The HS-601 is a three-axis, body-stabilized geostationary communications satellite bus developed by Hughes Space and Communications in California, introduced in 1987, with 84 spacecraft ordered by 17 customers.

HS2 rolling stock

HS2 rolling stock is the fleet of 54 fully electric high-speed trains ordered in December 2021 from a Hitachi-Alstom joint venture under a £1.97 billion contract for Britain's HS2 railway.

HS2000

The HS2000 is a Croatian 9mm semi-automatic pistol developed for the Croatian army in the late 1990s and sold in the US as the Springfield XD.

HSC Hoverspeed Great Britain

HSC Hoverspeed Great Britain was a 73.6-meter wave-piercing catamaran ferry built by Incat in 1990 for the British cross-Channel operator Hoverspeed, the first of her type to carry vehicles commercially.

HSC-84

HSC-84, known as the "Red Wolves," was a US Navy Reserve helicopter squadron at Norfolk, Virginia, dedicated to Naval Special Warfare support and Strike Rescue until 2016.

HSC-85

HSC-85 (Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 85), nicknamed the Firehawks, was a US Navy Reserve helicopter squadron at NAS North Island supporting special operations forces, deactivated in 2023.

HSDPA

HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) is a packet-data enhancement of WCDMA, introduced in 3GPP Release 5, that raises downlink data rates and capacity in a cell.

Hsiao-Ying Shadow Huang

Hsiao-Ying Shadow Huang is a mechanical engineer and associate professor at North Carolina State University who received a 2017 PECASE award for research on venous valve tissue mechanics in chronic venous insufficiency.

Hsieh W. Shen

Hsieh W. Shen, also known as Hsieh Wen Shen, was an environmental engineer and hydraulician at UC Berkeley who pioneered reservoir flow control for river restoration.

Hsieh Wen Shen

Hsieh Wen Shen (1931–2021) was a Chinese-born American environmental engineer and hydraulician, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for using reservoir flow control to restore rivers.

Hsieh-Ho power station

Hsieh-Ho power station (协和发电厂) is a thermal power plant in Keelung, Taiwan. Built as a heavy-oil plant beginning in 1977, it is owned and operated by Taiwan Power Company.

Hsien K. Cheng

Hsien Kei Cheng (1923–2007) was a Chinese-born American aerospace engineer at USC, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988 for hypersonic flow theory.

Hsinchu Science Park

Hsinchu Science Park, also known as Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park, is a science park in Taiwan focusing on semiconductors, accounting for over 10% of GDP there.

Hsinta power station

Hsinta power station (兴达发电厂), also called Hsing-ta Power Plant, is a thermal plant of Taiwan Power Company in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, the third-largest with about 4,326 MW.

HSM-51

HSM-51, the "Warlords", is the US Navy's only forward-deployed expeditionary helicopter squadron, based at Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan, flying MH-60R Seahawks on anti-submarine and anti-surface missions in the Western Pacific.

HSPA

HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) is a set of packet-data enhancements to WCDMA, the 3G mobile air interface standardized by 3GPP, combining HSDPA downlink and HSUPA uplink.

HSPA+

HSPA+, or HSPA Evolution, is a mobile broadband technology that extends 3G WCDMA networks with MIMO and dual-carrier operation, standardized in 3GPP Release 7 in 2007.

HSPICE

HSPICE is a commercial SPICE circuit simulator for transistor-level simulation of analog, RF, and mixed-signal integrated circuits, commercialized from Berkeley SPICE by Meta-Software and now sold by Synopsys.

HSST

HSST (High Speed Surface Transport) is a Japanese normal-conducting maglev system that levitates vehicles by electromagnetic attraction and entered commercial service in 2005 on Aichi's Linimo line.

HSUPA

HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access) is the uplink enhancement of WCDMA mobile networks, standardized in 3GPP Release 6 in 2004 and deployed commercially from around 2007.

HT-7

HT-7, short for Hefei Tokamak-7, was a superconducting tokamak operated by China's Institute of Plasma Physics in Hefei, commissioned in 1994 from a rebuilt Soviet T-7.

HTC (宏达国际电子股份有限公司)

HTC Corporation, also known as High Tech Computer, is a Taiwanese electronics company founded in 1997 that made the first Android smartphone and now centers on VIVE virtual reality.

HTC Dream

The HTC Dream, sold in most markets as the T-Mobile G1, was the first commercially released Android smartphone, launched in the US in October 2008 at $179.

HTCondor

HTCondor, called Condor until 2012, is an open-source workload management system for high-throughput computing developed by the Center for High Throughput Computing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Htilominlo Temple

Htilominlo Temple, in Pali Trilokamaṅgalā meaning "Blessing of the Three Worlds", is a large two-storeyed Buddhist temple in Bagan, Myanmar, built in the early 13th century by King Nataungmya.

HTML

HTML, or HyperText Markup Language, is the core markup language of the World Wide Web, defining the structure and semantics of web pages. Tim Berners-Lee created it at CERN.

HTML data attributes

HTML data attributes, also called custom data attributes and written data-, are HTML attributes that let authors attach private page-specific data to any element for scripts and CSS.

HTML dialog element

The HTML dialog element represents a modal or non-modal dialog box, such as a dismissible alert or subwindow, with built-in focus trapping and Escape closing when modal.

HTML element

An HTML element is a component of an HTML document, marked by a start tag like and usually an end tag, with attributes and content between them.