Courtesy of NASA's National Space Science Data Center . ... The Lunar Orbiter 4 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... This experiment consisted of a dual-lens camera system designed to satisfy the primary mission objective of providing photogaphic information for mapping and for the evaluation of Apollo and Surveyor landing sites. ...

Lunar Orbiter 4 . Courtesy of NASA's National Space Science Data Center . ... The Lunar Orbiter 4 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... This experiment consisted of a dual-lens camera system designed to satisfy the primary mission objective of providing photogaphic information for mapping and for the evaluation of Apollo and Surveyor landing sites. ...

... The spacecraft of Magion type have been selected as the subsatellites of the Interball project: Magion-4 (C2-X) for the Tail Probe and Magion-5 (C2-A) for the Auroral Probe. ... Magion-4 was produced in the Czech Republic in collaboratrion with Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Austria and has onboard scientific instruments and sensors designed and built in Czech Republic, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovak Republic. ... Plasma flow detector VDP-S (Czech Republic, Russia) . ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Concept Spacecraft . ... Posted on May 11, 2015 | 3 Comments A research group called the Eagleworks at NASAтАЩs Johnson Space Center in Texas is tasked with investigating novel space propulsion techniques. ... Continue Reading.. ... 133 Comments June 2014 saw excited reports that NASA was working on a faster than light warp drive starship. ... Posted on December 5, 2013 | ... Posted on June 26, 2013 | ... Posted on May 24, 2013 | ...

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Magnetic field experiment on Vega - 1 and 2 spacecraft. ... Two spacecrafts, Vega-1 and Vega-2 have been launched aboard Proton rockets from Baykonour on 15 and 21 December 1984, respectively. ... During the cruise phase from Earth to Venus both Vega-1 and Vega-2 spacecrafts had one-axis orientation i.e. Bx of magnetometer was directed to the Sun, By and Bz axes were rotated around Bx-axis. ... Spacecraft position data are presented in HGI and SE systems. ... Vega-1 magnetic data for 1984 . ...

ION AND ELECTRON ENERGY DETECTOR PAN-2 . ... The energy and angular distributions of charged particles can bring further information on the nature and spatial scales of magnetospheres processes. ... It permits the fast measurements of energy and angular parameters of charged particles in the range 40eV-40keV. ... The sensor unit is an electron electrostatic, axially symmetrical, toroidal analyzer. ... The energy range for both types of charged particles must stepped according to the logarithmic scale. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . ... News . ... Today, December 15, transportation spacecraft Soyuz TMA-19M with its crew was successfully put into a low Earth orbit and is headed for the International Space Station (ISS). ... The manned transportation spacecraft of the new series Soyuz TMA-M developed and built by RSC Energia is an upgraded version of the Soyuz TMA spacecraft. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" ....

... In spite of the fact that the orbit assumes a zero gravity (the scientists count on it by growing super-clean crystals and other materials impossible on the earth), in fact, none spacecraft provides such conditions. ... This question is answered by the device developed by SSAU scientists - Micro-acceleration Compensation Space System (MCSS). ... Then, the computer will give commands to the magnets that compensate micro-accelerations. ... Tags: 'photon-m4' mcss . ... SAMARA STATE AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY...

... NASA SPACECRAFT FINDS NEW EVIDENCE FOR WATER ICE ON MERCURY . ... The new data indicate the water ice in Mercury's polar regions, if spread over an area the size of Washington, D.C., would be more than 2 miles thick," said David Lawrence, a MESSENGER participating scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., and lead author of one of three papers describing the findings. ... Water ice concentrations are derived from the hydrogen measurements. ...

... We computed the permanently shadowed areas and temperatures inside the craters for the variation of the position of the lunar pole of rotation with respect to the ecliptic pole with a period of 18.6 years. ... According to our results, the total permanently shadowed area in the polar craters of the Moon is equal to 50428.7 km2, or 0.13% of the total area of the lunar surface [3]. ... The area of permanently shaded part of a crater makes 59 % from all area of a crater [3]. ...

... Tracking stations will be selected in accordance with the schedule issued daily by the General Operative Control Group (GOCG) in Lavochkin Association with the gaps in operations during spacecraft contact with the control stations (CS). ... Communication frequencies (carrier): high data rate information transmission downlink from the SRT ­ 15.000 GHz; uplink synchronization ­ 7.2075 GHz; downlink synchronization ­ 8.400 GHz. ...

... The Race to Reveal Our Universe . ... Jupiters Moons Thebe, Amalthea, and Metis . ... A Green Flash from the Sun . ... Newborn stars lie at at the heart of the the Orion Nebula, hidden from view by the dust and gas of the giant Orion Molecular Cloud number 1 (OMC-1). ... As viewed from planet Earth, they will be clustered within about 26 degrees, the closest alignment for all these celestial bodies since February 1962, when there was a solar eclipse! ... The North America Nebula . ... February 2002 ...

... 2005 November 1 . A Soyuz Spacecraft Approaches the Space Station . Credit : ISS Expedition 11 Crew, NASA . Explanation: Last month, a Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft docked with the International Space Station. ... Pictured above , the approaching Soyuz spacecraft carried the new Expedition 12 crew to the Earth-orbiting International Space Station (ISS), as well as fee-paying spaceflight participant . ... About APOD | ...

... Up: Data Analysis Tools, Techniques, and Software . ... The Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) is successfully being used as an all-sky hard X-ray monitor. ... The Burst and Transient Source Experiment ( BATSE ) on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory ( CGRO ) is being used as an all-sky monitor of point-like hard X and ray sources in the 20 keV-1 MeV energy range (Harmon et al. ... For most sources, 10-20 clean steps per day are available. ...

... Search . ... Astrophysics Group . Research . ... Research and Instrumentation . ... While this seems an extraordinary endeavour, in light of what we have learnt about Solar System planets, only a handful of key ingredients are required to start characterising an exoplanet. ... The NGTS project is a partnership between the University of Cambridge, Queen?s University Belfast, University of Warwick, University of Leicester, Observatoire de Geneve, DLR (Berlin) and Universidad Catolica de Chile. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... SHANNON W. LUCID (Ph.D.) . nasa astronaut (former) . ... She is qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews. ... A veteran of five space flights, Dr. Lucid has logged 5,354 hours (223 days) in space. ... Dr. Lucid retired from NASA in January 2012. ... In completing this flight, Dr. Lucid logged 838 hours and 54 minutes in space. ... FEBRUARY 2012 ...

... Lubin 5 , J.C. Mather 3 , R.A. Shafer 3 , G.F. Smoot 6 , R. Weiss 7 , D.T. Wilkinson 8 , and E.L. Wright 9 The Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment (DIRBE) on the Cosmic Background Explorer ( COBE ) spacecraft was designed primarily to conduct a systematic search for an isotropic cosmic infrared background ( CIB ) in ten photometric bands from 1.25 to 240 m. The results of that search are presented here ... 5 ) UCSB, Physics Department, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 . ... huizinga@stsci.edu . ...

... QPOE event times are typically expressed in units of an on-board spacecraft clock. ... The conversion is automatically performed as part of the timing corrections in 8.7.2. The stand-alone task scc_to_utc allows conversion of an arbitrary spacecraft time to UTC. input files: xtimingdata$scc_to_utc.tab ti> scc_to_utc tbl_fname = xtimingdata$scc_to_utc.tab # ROSAT # conversion table input spacecraft clock time (1606720.) ...