... 2014 January 6 . Three CubeSats Released . Image Credit: Expedition 38 Crew , NASA . Explanation: Cubes are orbiting the Earth. ... Pictured above , three CubeSats were released from the International Space Station (ISS) last November by the arm of the Japan ese Kibo Laboratory module. ... Depending on the exact height of their release, CubeSats will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere on the time scale of months to years. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . ...

First Mid Term Date has Changed . Classes on Friday . ... Second Midterm Date is Changed to May 29 . ... Local Astronomy Stuff . ... Excellent Overview of the Early Universe . ... First Midterm Results . First Midterm Answers . Second Midterm Results . Second Midterm Answers . ... Study Guide for the First Midterm . Study Guide for the Second Midterm . ... WEEK 1: ANCIENT COSMOLOGY . ... The Universe in the first 0.01 -0.1 seconds . The Universe in the first 0.1 -1 second . ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide Listing . ... but maintain some support for current clients. See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . ... August 22, 2005: They report they no longer manufacturer the SkyProbe 1000, but will provide limited support to current owners. Last Update August 22, 2005 . ... Web Site . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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; . ...

. This conceptual image shows the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, launched September 15, 1991, by the space shuttle Discovery . Originally designed for a 3-year mission, UARS measured chemical compounds found in the ozone layer, wind and temperature in the stratosphere, as well as the energy input from the Sun. Together, these measurements helped define the role of Earth's upper atmosphere in climate and climate variability. UARS was decommissioned December 14, 2005. NASA

eDucation . ... Primary Schools . Post Primary . ... The Post Primary School educational programme is designed to be both fun and rewarding for students. The Key Stage 3 curriculum is especially rich in links to astronomy and space.€а There are dozens of opportunities to link the PlanetariumтАЩs work to the curriculum.€а We have designed some thought-provoking workshops which will retain their power long after the Planetarium visit is over.€а . ... тАв Northern Ireland Curriculum - Science . ...

... This glossary is not meant to be an exhaustive list of techno-definitions. ... Is there a term you don't see here? ... Do you know how to pronounce the CONSTELLATIONS , STARS , or the PLANETS and their MOONS ? ... First Law - the orbit of each planet is an ellipse with the sun at a focus . ... LIGHT BUCKET: A common slang term for a large apertures . ... LIGHT POLLUTION: The illumination of the night sky caused by artificial light sources on the ground (streetlights, billboards, etc.) ...

... Russian KOI8 . Scientists of Laboratory of radio astrophysics develop algorithms and software. ... design of statistical estimations methods of average and smoothing; . fitting algorithms design; . development of the data processing system FADPS (Flexible Astronomical Data Processing System); . design of visualisating and interactive data reduction programs for initial observational data ( fgr (Russian KOI-8) ) and continuum radio sources spectra (spg); . ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... ISC Kosmotras announces signing of a launch contract with T B?TAK Space Technologies Research Institute (T B?TAK UZAY) for injection of RASAT spacecraft - the first Earth observation satellite designed and manufactured in Turkey by Dnepr LV in 2010. ... Dnepr LV Performance . ...

. Space vehicle "Mariner-4". “Mariner” (English "Mariner" - a sailor) is an american autometic interplanet series for Venus, Mers, Mercury and Space investigations. They are designed for the planets flight and bringing in to the planetocentrial orbits. The maximum starting mass of "Mariner" is about 1 tone. In 1962 - 1973 10 "Mariners were launched. The surveys made by "Mariner-4" showed that Mars is also covered with the craters. The mass of the planet and its atmosphere was calculated. Back .

... 1100 FTT/NAS . ... 1120 Camera . ... 1140 Camera Mount & Enclosure . ... 1170 Test Equipment . ... 1200 FLC . ... MRO-PLA-CAM-0000-0106 FTT/NAS & FLC Development Plan . ... MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0109 "FTT/NAS,FLC-UTE" FTT/NAS & FLC to Enclosure ICD . MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0110 "FTT/NAS,FLC-NOT" FTT/NAS & FLC to optical table ICD . MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0111 "FTT/NAS,FLC-UT" FTT/NAS & FLC to UT optical ICD . ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIFastTipTilt/DocMan) ...

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... Contacts . 2011: . ... In collaboration with the UFU . ... It is shown that the application of modern kinematic components (the ball screws, CV joints, hybrid gearboxes), stepper and servo-controlled drives and encoders improves the accuracy of the panel positioning by the radius, angle, azimuth by 6, 4, 2 times, respectively, to reduce the backlash by 2-4 times, to shorten the panel setting time by 8-10 times, to achieve the repeatability of panel setting within 20 microns. ... Archive . ...

Return to Flight Space Shuttle Discovery launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center July 26, ending a two-and-a-half year wait for the historic Return to Flight mission. ... Astronaut Soichi Noguchi, representing Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Steve Robinson, STS-114 mission specialist, did three successful spacewalks at the International Space Station and Discovery transported tons of equipment and supplies to and from the station. ... Discovery was about 600 feet from the station. ...

Improvement and New Results of the Laser Time Transfer on MEO satellites Meng Wendong, Zhang Haifeng, Yang Huafeng, Chen Wanzhen, Wang Jie, Ivan Prochazka , Zhang Zhongping Shanghai Observatory, CAS China Academy of Space Technology Czech Technical University Goals of Laser Time Transfer ( LTT ) · Evaluate the performance of the space rubidium clocks with respective to the ground hydrogen maser, dedicated for the Compass ...

... Main . ... The RadioAstron is an international space VLBI project led by the Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, Russia. ... List of organizations which were taken part in developing of the project and now support the RadioAstron mission is presented here . The RadioAstron Newsletter # 29 , July 18, 2015. RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity - 4 for observations from July 2016 to June 2017 inclusive. ... 2.7, December 17, 2015 : English version. ... Main ASC . ...

... Figure: Children from the Armstrong Primary School, Armagh, at the Launch of the Human Orrery on 26 November 2004. The innovative `Dance of the Planets' was choreographed by dance teacher Jennifer Rooney. ... The Armagh Observatory Human Orrery is believed to be the first large outdoor exhibit designed to show with precision the elliptical orbits and changing relative positions of the planets and other solar system bodies versus time. ...

... Previous message: George.Warr_at_csiro.au: "Welcome to SKAMP Project Discussion hypermail majordomo list" . ... Correlator Update . ... The "Correlator Team" (Tim Adams, Nyima Warr & Dimiter Nedialkov) was formed . ... spent in understanding the design and its implications to a real world . ... The roles of the different members in the group could be described as . ... Dimiter: Xilinx Optimisation of XMAC units. ... 2) Tim has design an XMAC unit using Xilinx Coregen components. ... This design is ....

... 6.1 Kino 2048 x 1024, Eight Output CCD Design: On the center/right of the SandboxIV wafer is an 8-output design that uses a similar cell structure to the PlutoCCD CCD. ... The primary functional difference between PlutoCCD and Kino is the number of amplifiers. Kino has 8 output amplifiers and PlutoCCD has 4 output amplifiers. ... The CCD uses the two-stage amplifier found on the PlutoCCD and the two-stage Kino design and is available with both MPP and non/MPP operation. ...

1,2 - Modifyted Richter-Slefogt Camera (355mm, 200 mm) The system was designed by V.Yu.Terebizh in 2001 (terebizh@crao.crimea.ua), and then has been made by Gennadiy Borisov . ... Very Wide Field Camera near Kislovodsk: MASTER WFC-Kislovodsk . Up to 1200 square degrees up to 13 m. Very Wide Field Camera near Moscow (40 x 60 square degree) (CCD 1392 x 1040 pix, Sony). ... This system can discover and measure satellites and space refuse parameters to within 0.1 ang.sec. precision. ...