... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

... This is possible at modest cost due to the low moments of inertia of the telescope and enclosure. ... This same performance will be achieved in higher winds when the telescope enclosure is facing away from the wind, or by using wind screens. ... The telescope system (MILT) will be remotely operable with an on-site operator's assistance by an astronomer located at one of the ARC member institutions. ... Mean Wind Speed . ... Offsets > 10 deg: 1 arc sec rms max . ... 5 sec max, tracking to tracking . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

There are six possible ways of object description: . a) by number(s) . ... d) by list . e) by orbital elements . ... They should be introduced as year, month, day with tenth (e.g. 20021104.1). d) Computations are performed for all objects listed in the file whose path and name should be introduced into assigned data field. ... On pressing Edit file button user has a possibility to look through the list of object elements or their coordinates and velocities to add or to change it. ...

... index.php (1) | bbclone/ | ... To do you can use the following sample and point your browser to it. <?php define("_BBC_PAGE_NAME", "Test"); define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "bbclone/"); define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php"); if (is_readable(COUNTER)) include_once(COUNTER); ?> ... Create the file "count.php" and add the following: <?php define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "/the/path/that/leads/to/bbclone/"); define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php"); if (is_readable(COUNTER)) include_once(COUNTER); ?> ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

An example of visual expert system. The program is written on Actor Prolog. -- -- (c) Alexei A. Morozov, March 19, 1999. ... Actually I wrote this program to train myself -- -- in carrying out SADT interview. ... A logical description of the blocks of the SADT model. ... The main purpose of these classes is keeping lists of cooking -- -- battery corresponding to various blocks of the SADT model. ...

... Byte-by-byte Description of files: star -S1.txt , star -S2.txt, star -S3.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations 1- 4 I4 --- YYYY Year of the date 6- 7 I2 --- MM Month of the date 9- 10 I2 d DD Day of the date 13- 14 I2 h h Hour of the day 18- 24 F7,2 d JD* Julian day of the date , JD*=JD-2450000.5 28- 31 F4.1 degrees M-S Apparent distance between ...

... THANK YOU NASA. ... I decided to return to a full-time job (after a 15-year hiatus raising my children). I took a civil service exam, was called the next day and assigned as a GS-5 to the Flight Operations Division, NASA Space Task Group, to Chris [Christopher C.] Kraft and Charles [W.] Mathews (Chief) located in separate buildings, on the West Side of Langley Air Force Base. ... Chris Kraft was also the Mission Flight Director for the Mercury Astronauts. ... Return to JSC Oral History Website . ...

The most recent kpyymm.tab (yymm stands for year and month, each expressed with two digits) files are distributed per e-mail half-monthly by Dr. H.-J. Linthe, mailto:kp_index@gfz-potsdam.de Both recent and past tables are supplied as an archive on the FTP servers . ... Since many observatories are interested mainly in the international quietest and most disturbed days, beginning August 1996 three extra lines have been added to the end of the table containing these values in an easy to read form. ...

... To accomplish this, the data model will use a layered design. ... Figure: Layered Design of the ASC Data Model. ... The decision to adopt the ETOOLS package as the generic layer of the implementation of the ASC data model was made because it meets the implementation requirements. ... Standard API Independent of Data Format : Because of the ETOOLS kernel approach, tools and applications designed and implemented on top of the ETOOLS package can access different disk file formats through the same API. ...