PROSPERO

the rightful duke of Milan and a master magician in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Prospero has used the experience of shipwreck on an enchanted island to master all sorts of supernatural powers. He uses this knowledge to transform the island and its inhabitants and eventually to reconcile with his brother Antonio. Prospero delivers one of Shakespeare's most famous speeches, declaring, We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep. The character has been said to embody Shakespeare's own philosophy and to represent the power of knowledge. first of four X-3 satellites orbited by Great Britain. It was launched with a British Black Arrow missile on Oct. 28, 1971, from the rocket-testing facility at Woomera, Australia. Prospero weighed 145 pounds (66 kilograms) and was primarily designed to test the efficiency of various technical innovations, such as a new system of telemetry and solar cell assemblies. It also carried detectors to measure the density of high-speed micrometeoroid particles of space dust in the Earth's upper atmosphere.