First light from the Superconducting Integrated Receiver on board Terahertz limb sounder TELIS P. Yagoubova, G. de Langea, R. Hoogeveena, A. de Langea and V. Kosheletsb a Netherlands Institute for Space Research, SRON, the Netherlands b Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, IREE, Russia Abstract-- We present the flight configuration and performance of the Superconducting Integrated Receiver (SIR) channel on the TELIS instrument (Terahertz and Submm Limb Sounder). ...

... build and test receivers up to 40 - 350 GHz . ... Banham R., Valsecchi G., Lucci L., Pelosi G., Selleri S., Natale V., Nesti R., Tofani G. 2005, Microwave Journal 48, 112 Electroformed front-end at 100 GHz for Radioastronomical applications . Comoretto, G., D'Ambrosi, A., Nesti, R., Russo, A., Palagi, P. 2006, Arcetri Technical Report n. 4 A modular multichannel spectrometer - design study . ... Cresci, L., Lucci, L., Orfei A., Natale, V., Nesti, R., Panella, D., Pelosi, G., Rossi, L. 2006, Mem. ...

Potassium Doppler-Resonance Lidar . ... The diode laser is frequency modulated by a dual-pass acousto- optic modulation setup developed by the lidar group at Colorado State University in order to get the spectral information necessary to measure potassium temperature in the mesopause. ... The laser output is wavelength locked using a pulsed wavemeter and software developed at the Arecibo Observatory in order to feed back to the dye laser's rotating grating. ... Back to the Lidar Home Page . ...

... JWST . ... The Birth Of Stars And Protoplanetary Systems . ... JWST Instruments . Instrument Module . ... The Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) forms the scientific heart of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and is being developed at the Goddard Space Flight Center . ... It consists of four science instruments, guider, and nine key subsystems that are shared by each of the science instruments. ... The cold portion of the ISIM is integrated with the Optical Telescope Element (OTE). ...

... The computer control systems and the data analysis software tools are being developed simultaneously and are used with the mock-up hardware to simulate the data acquisition process. ... Software which handles the commissioning tasks, engineering analysis, and data processing are being developed in the AIPS++ system. ... Here we give some examples of the software being developed and we show some of the tools available in the AIPS++ programming and analysis environment. ...

On the afternoon of Friday 21 April 2006, the eastern New Technology Demonstrator (NTD) antenna on the Marsfield antenna range saw its "first light", successfully detecting the Orion Nebula. ... Our main tasks now in the NTD project are to fur-ther underst and the behaviour of Vivaldi feeds and develop a better design to meet the requirements of the extended New Technology Demonstrator (xNTD) and Square Kilometre Array (SKA) for high dynamic range, frequency coverage and sensitivity to polarisation. ...

Feed cabin Nr. ... Fig. ... This allows to realize the sensitivity at frequency ranges 4.8, 11.2 and 30.0 GHz of 5, 7 and 12 mK by double beam switching mode and by the integration time of the output filter 1s. Input waveguide paths were very long and had big losses. ... The focal line of the feed cabin Nr. ... Data Acquisition and Control System . The Data acquisition system of the feed cabin Nr 2 is based on the new measurement ER-DAS system (Embedded Radiometric Data Acquisition System). ...

INFRARED FOURIER-SPECTROMETER SICH-F . ... Instrument work regimes: 1) Inside. 2) Calibration at inside standard sources 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 3) Calibration at "free space" 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 4) Infrared radiation measuring 10 - 40 min. per a rotation. ... Spectrometer consists of the photodetector block and the block of signal processing and control. ... Diagnostic information and attach data will transfer by state telemetric channels. ... Detector temperature. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Activities > APEX Science Verification > SHFI . ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Telescope Time Allocation . ... ESO Data . ... The Science Verification (SV) observations of the APEX Swedish Heterodyne Facility Instrument were observed in March 2008. ... A selection of the APEX-1 proposals listed below have been observed during the week of joint SV observations in March 2008, and later during the ESO time of period...

ERS -1,2 SAR . ... SIR-C/X SAR . ... European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-1) was launched on 17 July 1991, and the follow mission ERS-2 (with the same sensors and an Ozone monitoring instrument added) was launched on 21 April 1995. ... The Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR), carried in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Endeavour in April and October of 1994, simultaneously recorded SAR data at three wavelengths (L-, C-, and X-bands; 23.5, 5.8, and 3.1 cm, respectively). ...

The LIDAR Instrument Information . The LIDAR was designed in a bistatic scheme with a separate transmitter and two receiver channels. ... The total mass of the instrument is only 940 grams (about 2 pounds) and a total volume is 950 cubic centimeters in both assemblies. ... Engineers designed the LIDAR to operate in the temperature range from -100 to 50 degrees Celsius (-148 to 122 degrees Fahrenheit) under lower pressure, near one millibar. ... One of the receiver channels has polarizer. ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

Instruments and Methods 129 Multi-element MMIC focal array for radio telescope V.B. Khaikin1, E.K. Ma jorova1 , Yu.N. Parijskij1, M.D. Parnes2 , R.G. Shifman2 , V.A. Dobrov2 , V.A. Volkov2, V.D. Korolkov2, S.D. Uman2 , N.A. Esepkina3 , and S.K. Kruglov3 The Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences Karachai-Cherkessia, N.Arkhyz, 357147, Russia, E-mail: vkh@brown.nord.nw.ru Svetlana", Rezonance", Ascor", 194156, Engels pr. ... Four-element sub-array prototype is shown in Fig.2. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Antenna system . ... The Irkutsk incoherent scatter radar is one of the world's nine active radars which give the opportunity to investigate ionosphere by the incoherent scatter method. ... Antenna gain coefficient . ... Antenna . ... Two antennas . ... To get an idea what station "Dnepr" antenna system looks like, let us consider some of the radar views which are given by the photographs General view and Side view . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . ... These measuring instruments together with the developed methods of biosensor conservation for long periods of time allow to execute on-line monitoring of toxicity of the solutions and water on the orbital station. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

Status of the RadioAstron project development . The engineering model of the Space Radio Telescope (SRT) was assembled in Lavochkin Association (LA) in the configuration consisting of 10-m parabolic radio astronomical antenna made of carbon-fiber, F ocal and Device cabins of the scientific payload and on-board and ground complex of high data rate up-down radio link (VIRK). ... Then,radio astronomical tests were conducted using real radio sources. ... Space Radio Telescope . ... Data Processing . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... SKALA meets LOFAR . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... SKA Aperture Array in Australia . ... SKALA, designed at the University of Cambridge, was connected to the LOFAR HBA back end in order to perform a series of tests including: antenna pattern measurements using satellite passes, measurement of the spectrum with the active SKALA element, tests of SKALA LNAs stability over time, cross correlation tests with HBA tiles (X and Y polarizations) and beam-forming using SKALA as an HBA...

Structure of the supersmall satellites . Scientific equipment . Supersmall satellite "Universitetskiy" is manufactured by Production Corporation "Polyot" (Omsk, Russia) in the interests of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Supersmall satellite "Kompas-2" is a pilot project of multi-satellite system which is intended for prediction and motnitoring of natural and technologenical disasters. ... Composition of the scientific equipment of the "Universitetskiy" satellite. ...

PLANCK --- UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE A. L˜ahteenm˜aki 1 , M. Tornikoski 1 , J. Aatrokoski 1 , E. Valtaoja 2 1 Mets˜ahovi Radio Observatory, Helsinki University of Technology Mets˜ahovintie 114, 02540 Kylm˜al˜a, Finland alien@kurp.tkk.fi 2 Tuorla Observatory, University of Turku, Finland The Planck satellite is a European Space Agency ESA's mission capable of mapping the whole sky at several radio wavelengths. ...

... SMIS ] . noise temperature of the low noise amplifier less than 100 K . automatic frequency and polarization adjustment of the received signal . double transform of frequency . power supply: single phase, 220 V, 50 Hz . power consumption: less than 30 Wt . the unit measures: 470 x 300 x 130 mm . weight: less than 10 kg . ... Back to SMIS Home Page . ...