AGENDA

of the RadioAstron Meeting

Moscow, 25-27 September 2002

 

 September 25, Wednesday

 

Visit to Lavochkin Association

10:00 am                     Bus starts from hotel “Akademicheskaya”

 

11:00 – 13:00             Morning meeting session

Chairman Kulikov S.D.

 

·        Welcome

S.D. Kulikov (10 min)

·        Discussion of the Agenda (10 min)

·        Development and tests of the spacecraft “SPEKTR-R” and general time-line of the mission

V.E. Babyshkin (30 min)

·        Time-line of development of science payload

N.G. Babakin (20 min)

·        Demonstration of unfolding of the SRT (video 2001)

V.A. Serebrennikov(30 min)

 

13:00-14:00                Lunch

 

14:00-16:30 

           

·        Visit to the Mission Control Center

·        Mission operations in flight

K.G. Sukhanov, M.I. Artyukhov (20 min)

·        Inspection of adjusting shop assembling SRT for Pushchino tests

·        Demonstration of engineering models of SPEKTR-R

 

19:00                           Bolshoi Theater (Gisel), Moscow Circus

 

September 26, Thursday

 

Meeting sessions at ASC

 

09:30 – 11:00              Chairman M.V. Popov

 

·        Status and tests of SRT and interferometer

V.V. Andreyanov (40 min)

·        Main modes of observations and some key science programs

N.S. Kardashev (40 min)

·        22-GHz on-board receiver with frequency switching

Yu.A. Korneev, V.I. Vasilkov (20 min)

 

11:00 – 11:30              Coffee break

 

11:30 – 13:00              Chairman L. D’Addario

 

·        Ground radio telescopes

E. Fomalont (NRAO), P. Diamond (EVN), D. Jauncey (Australia),

H. Hirabayashi (Japan), S. Ye, Z. Qian (China),

R. Dagkesamanski (Russia), M. Lytvinenko (Ukraine)     (30 min)

·        Tracking stations

NASA, G. Langston (15 min)

·        High accuracy orbit determination

NASA (15 min)

·        Correlators and software development

E. Fomalont, W. Cannon, L. Girvits, S.F. Likhachev (30 min)

 

13:00-14:00                Lunch

 

14:00 – 16:00              Chairman S. Urpo

 

·        High-apogee orbit: selection of initial parameters, injection and corrections

A.I. Sheikhet (20 min)

·        Sky coverage and an example of observing program

M.V. Popov, V.E. Yakimov (20 min)

·        Pre-launch surveys for RadioAstron

K. Kellermann (40 min)

·        Technical and operation experience, and science results from VSOP mission

H. Hirabayashi, E. Fomalont, L. Gurvits (40 min)

 

16:00 – 16:30              Coffee break

 

16:30 – 18:00              Chairman K. Kellermann

 

·        Observations of interstellar scintillation and it’s applications to RadioAstron

D. Jauncey (30 min)

·        Prospects of radio astrometry with RadioAstron

N. Bartel (20 min)

·        Prospects to study galactic maser with RadioAstron

P. Diamond (20min)

·        Prospects to study megamasers with RadioAstron

W. Baan (20 min)

 

19:30                           Dinner

 

September 27, Friday

 

11:30 – 13:00              Meeting in ROSAVIAKOSMOS

 

 

14:00 –15:00               Lunch

 

15:00 - …                    Closing session at ASC

Chairman D. Jauncey)

 

Plan of international cooperation

 

·        Participation of foreign specialists in Pushchino tests

·        The problem of aging of on-board scientific devices

·        Support of tracking stations

·        The program of pre-launch surveys

·        Formation of international working teams

1.      Science payload

2.      Telemetry stations

3.      Operations

4.      Orbit determination

5.      Correlators and data processing

6.      Science program

·        RISC membership

·        Action items