... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Experiments and Researches from 2013 . Experiments and Researches (2000-2013) . Rocket Space Complexes . ... Images . ... Crew 43/44 . ... Support of the Space Station functionality; . ... Implementation of the utilization program and life science experiments for a space flight participant of visiting crew VC-16. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... International workshop “The Europa Lander: science goals and experiments” is organized by the Space Research Institute (IKI) of Russian Academy of Sciences, on February 9-13, 2009, in Moscow, Russia. The workshop will last 5 days including the days of arrival/departure and some sightseeing events, and focus on the scientific goals and technical aspects of the project, key issues of Europa science with the special emphasis on astrobiology and requirements to scientific instruments. ...

... April, 2010: APOLLO detects lost Soviet reflector . October, 2009: LCROSS event. May, 2009: APO featured on PBS film 400 Years of the Telescope . April 3, 2009: For the International Year of Astronomy , APO is featured in a 20-minute segment during a 100-hour webcast. ARC 3.5m | ... Instrument News: Current Status . Instrument Summary . ... ARCES (Echelle) . ... Current Weather . Weather Status . ... Weather Plots . ... APO Password Access . 3.5m Nightlogs . ...

... Support the international SKA at the 20% level of an instrument for up to 3 GHz, limited in cost to $1B, and located at the selected site. Complete EVLA and ATA by 2013 Between now and 2013 develop array technology to provide firm cost estimates of an interim SKA Hi array operating to 50 GHz with 4X the area of the VLA. ... International SKA Participation - Support the international SKA at the 20% level of an instrument for up to 2 GHz, limited in cost to $1B, and located at the selected site.. ...

... 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. ...

The possibility to have Visitor Instruments at the VLTI has been granted to permit innovative observations by teams using stand-alone instruments, free from a substantial fraction of the requirements for fully automated VLTI general use instruments. In addition, the Visitor Instruments could provide a powerful scientific/technical test bench for new instrumental concepts, eventually to be incorporated later in VLTI facility instruments. ... a thorough technical description of the instrument, . ...

HST Call for Proposals and HST Primer for Cycle 24 . ... Hubble Space Telescope Primer for Cycle 24 > Appendix B: HST Mission > B.1 Servicing Missions and Instrument Complements . B.1 Servicing Missions and Instrument Complements . ... During this mission, astronauts replaced the FOC with a new instrument, the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). ... After the servicing mission, the ACS and NICMOS instruments, as well as WFPC2, remained fully commissioned for science. ...

... Space Research Institute . ... Launched in 2011. Hend (short for High Energy Neutron Detector) instrument onboard Mars Odyssey mission (NASA) to study Martian surface composition and to search for water ice on the surface and in the upper layer of the regolith in particular. ... Mars Express (ESA) mission for Mars remote sensing. ... BTN-M ?1 for BTN-Neutron experiment for fast and thermal neutron studies onboard Service Module within Russian Orbital Segment of International Space Station (ISS). ...

LOFAR in Australia ­ A Brief Engineering Perspective By Dr Peter J Hall, CSIRO SKA/LOFAR Program Leader 6 November, 2002 Background LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) is a proposed radio telescope designed to operate in the approximate frequency range 10 - 250 MHz. ... In both cases, the instruments would be built and operated by international consortia; Australia is a founding member of the 11-participant SKA consortium and may join the USA and Europe in the LOFAR endeavour. ...

... This method is based on putting space modules, vehicles and EVA-suit donned cosmonauts in the swimming pool under conditions of neutral buoyancy, indifferent equilibrium and unsupported state. ... You can also dive into the swimming pool with the SCUBA equipment in order to examine the mock-ups of space stations and vehicles and pass a course of rehabilitation in a hyperbaric oxygenation complex. ... Services / Hydrospace: General description Technical description "Orlan" suit Photo gallery Price . ...

. Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman of the International Astronomy Olympiad, . ISSP of Russ. Acad. Sci., Academician Ossipyan street 2, 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russia. URL: http://www.issp.ac.ru/iao/statutes/p/ . e-mail: gavrilov@issp.ac.ru . fax: + 7-(496-52)-28-160

... GSAOI Home . Instrument . ... The Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI) is a near-infrared adaptive optics camera that will be used with the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system on the Gemini South 8-m telescope . ... Gemini's major instrumentation goal is to develop its Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system for scientific use on Gemini South. ... Existing adaptive optics systems use a single natural guide star or artifical laser guide star to measure this image blur. ...

... Links . ... The children's contribution, "The Dragon's Egg", involved an innovative collaboration between members of the Armagh Rhy mers (Dara Vallely, Peter Shortall, Steve Lally, John McAllister), staff from Mount St. Catherine's Primary School (Anne Hart, Brenda Campbell and Briege Delaney) and astronomer Miruna Popescu, coordinator of the International Year of Astronomy in Ireland. ... Saturday, 19 September 2009 21:59 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Samara State Aerospace University Research Research and education centers Space Instruments Engineering Institute (IKP-214) . ... Developing and producing experimental test sets for modelling space environment factors interaction with spacecraft structural elements. ... Basic technolgy research set for testing equipment and interconnecting systems and small spacecraft carrying breadboard design, dynamic, thermal vacuum testing and testing of electronic equipment for electromagnetic compatibility. ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... Summer space schools as the effective form of operation above international educational space projects . ... In 2003 and 2004 Russian - European summer space schools have been carried out with students participation from 15 universities of Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Poland, the Great Britain. ... Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 2005-2006 . ...

PROTOCOL OF THE INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON "WARNING" MISSION . ... According to the National Space Program of Ukraine on 1998-2002 the experimental space system WARNING has to be designed and launched in 2001. ... Composition of scientific payload is implemented in the international cooperation. ... Lviv Center of Space Research Institute (LC SRC), Ukraine. ... Space Research Institute NASU-NSAU (SRI), Kiev, UKRAINE; . ... Lviv Center of Space Research Institute (LC SRI), Lviv, UKRAINE; . ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

... Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (Captain, USN, RET.) ... After his second mission, he led the International Space Station (ISS) Operations branch of the Astronaut Office. ... In October 2014 Lopez-Alegria became an independent consultant; he is based in Washington, D.C. SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Mission Specialist (MS)-2, STS-73 Columbia (October 20 to November 5, 1995). ... The primary mission objective was delivery of the Expedition 6 crew to the ISS and the return of the Expedition 5 crew to Earth. ...

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... ESA/NASA Solar Probe . ... Mission Operations . ... Ulysses is a solar probe launched in 1990 that has made the first-ever measurements of the Sun from a polar orbit. ... Formerly called the International Solar-Polar Mission (ISPM), Ulysses is an exploratory mission carried out jointly by ESA and NASA. ... NASA provided the launch aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (together with the upper-stage motor) and the spacecraft power generator, and is responsible for the remaining experiments. ...