Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Living the тАЬDreamтАЭ, the Dream Chaser; a mini Shuttle? Image credit: NASA) . The main objectives of the Dream Chaser program as described by its makers is to provide a passenger and cargo transportation system into Low Earth Orbit which will in turn help service and maintain the International Space Station. ... The Dream Chaser would be launched by an Atlas V rocket. Image Credit: NASA.) ... Dream Chaser test flight. ...

. Oct. 2 . During vibration tests at Lavochkin Association vibrational facilities . Sept.4 . Spectrum-X vibrational model is being transported to the Lavochkin vibration facility . Aug.28 . VTM model of Spectrum-X Spacecraft is ready for vibration tests at Lavochkin association . Last updated Oct. 2, 1998 by V.Arefiev, gita@hea.iki.rssi.ru .

National Aeronautics and Space Administration JSC's Aircraft Operations Division uses a unique tool--the Super Guppy-- to transport all sorts of oversized cargo. ... NASA S99-04740 Space Cen ter Roun d up The Roundup is an official publication of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, and is published by the Public Affairs Office for all Space Center employees. The Roundup office is in Bldg. ... It's Super Guppy! ...

... Archives . ... ArXiv] 1st week, Dec. ... The full article is found from [arXiv/astro-ph:0712.1037] . According to J. P. Dietrich , the positional citation effect (PCE) is significant so that preprints appeared at the top of daily lists tend to be more cited than other preprints. ... Tags: astro-ph , citation , positional citation effect . ... Check [astro-ph:0805.0307] Disentangling Visibility and Self-Promotion Bias in the arXiv:astro-ph Positional Citation Effect 05-05-2008, 9:52 pm . ...

So what is "Code Blue" and what does it mean? It's no great secret that several years ago we had the mirror re-coated on the 31" Blue Beast at Warren Rupp Observatory, and within a few short weeks, portions of the coating began to fail. ... These are the fellows that showed up at the Observatory on February 20th to help with the gargantuan and nail-biting task of getting mirror out of the telescope safely, out of the cell safely, into the box safely, and put into the truck safely. ...

... 314, 2004 F. Ochsenbein, M. Al len, and D. Egret, eds. The NOAO Pip eline Data Manager R. Hiriart, F. Valdes, F. Pierfederici, C. Smith and M. Miller National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ 85719 Abstract. The Data Manager for NOAO Pipeline system is a set of interrelated components that are being developed to fulfill the pipeline system data needs. ... The Data Manager is a subsystem of the NOAO Pipeline that provides several data management services to the system. ...

Full-Text Search . ... arXiv.org . astro-ph . ... SAI VO . Search sort results by Date Relevance . ... Whitespace-separated words are treated as AND ed. Show 10 50 100 articles per page in Full Compact mode . Normalized to: Beer, M. 11 article(s) in total . 21 co-authors, from 1 to 6 common article(s). ... Adams, Tim. ... Fruchter, Andrew S.. ... King, Andrew R.. ... Astronet | SAI MSU . ...

Higher intensity beamlines at synchrotron sources have driven the development of new x-ray sensitive detectors with enhanced performance capabilities for the collection of macromolecular diffraction data. ... To address this, a new integrating detector based upon a silicon chip charge-coupled device, or CCD, has been developed and successfully applied to the collection of macromolecular diffraction data at CHESS. ... Photograph of the CCD detector in place at the CHESS A1 station. ... CHESS Home Page ...

not-minutes' for first E-ALFA LOC Meeting Tuesday, April 4th Finance - From AO Bob indicates that up to $500 is available to any attendees arriving from the US On-site lodging to all attendees (N.B. FOR THREE NIGHTS PER PERSON) 'Incidentals' such as coffee etc. ACTION - Chris S.: A line number is necessary for items such as the 'beer and nibbles' - Chris to obtain this from Bob. ... Arrange for attendees who are renting vehicles to transport others from Airport? ... Meals etc. ...

... Protection from an excess charging is realized by means of limiting the charging voltage at the level of 14.5 V. Emergency protection is realized through temperature regulators mounted inside batteries. Protection from excess discharging is provided by switching the battery off from the discharging circuit and by switching it to charging when its voltage falls below 10.8 V. Power system design recommendations were made by Moscow Power Engineering Institute , Russia. ...

20-23 September 2016, St.Petersburg, Russia . ... The 13th European VLBI Network Symposium and Users Meeting will be held in Saint Petersburg ? the second largest city in Russia and one of the most beautiful cities in the world. ... On the Official city tourist portal of St.Petersburg you will find essential travel information about the city, attractions and events, and get the answers on any question helping you to plan your trip to Saint Petersburg. ...

NAME htpasswd - Create and update user authentication files SYNOPSIS htpasswd [ - c ] [ - m | ... p ] passwdfile username password htpasswd - n [ - m | ... p ] username password DESCRIPTION htpasswd is used to create and update the flat-files used to store usernames and password for basic authentication of HTTP users. ... Resources available from the httpd Apache web server can be restricted to just the users listed in the files created by htpasswd. ... The user is prompted for the password. ...

... Space flight . ... Space Hotel . ... Small orbital stations (SOS) are intended for the arrangement of flexible manned programs on commercial basis with the possibility of using the traditional Russian manned , cargo spacecrafts, their modifications and new modules oriented for the minimum costs and terms of orbital objects development . оThe principle of SOS building is as follows: it is developed not as a separate self-sufficient project of an ... It means a possibility of: . ...

... Meta Index / Home Page get and create the archive root directory get a list of file names in the current working directory. sort the file names according to observation , exposure , window and file type. run the pipeline. for each orbit print orbit being processed for each slew observation print Slew Observation being processed construct a list of filenames for: raw images combined images mod8 combined ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... SCons user manual http://www.scons.org/doc/1.2.0/HTML/scons-user/book1.html . SCons man page (on web at http://www.scons.org/doc/HTML/scons-man.html , or man scons ) . ... SCons is a tool to build compile source code into (closer-to) executable format. ... Curiously, the shared-library SCons builder will accept multiple identical sources and pass them all to the linker, which will normally lead to ?multiple definition? errors. ... Introduction to SCons . ...

19980127 Loading Primary Mirror to Transport . 19980127 Transporting Primary Mirror to Enclosure . ... 19980127 Removing Primary Mirror from Crate . 19980127 Moving Primary Mirror to Telescope . ... 19980128 Prepare Primary Mirror for Mirror Cell . 19980128 Moving Primary Mirror to Mirror Cell . 19980128 Lowering Primary Mirror to Mirror Cell . ... Pictures by Gretchen Van Doren/APO; better quality pictures available through Dan Long/APO ...

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... More than 300 surface reconstructions are already known for pure Si surface and Si surface with adsorbate. Study of their properties by the methods of surface physics reveal numerous interesting phenomena including various phase transitions accompanied by changes of Fermi-surface topology, development of the charge-density wave, etc . ... The charge-density wave (CDW) develops in materials with a chain-like crystal structure at temperatures below the Peierls transition temperature. ...

Proceedings Being Published (in CD Format) . The Astronomical Society of the Pacific announces the publication of the papers, handouts, and resources from the national conference on teaching introductory astronomy held last summer at the University of Colorado. The 350-page proceedings include 80 contributions from more than 100 authors (including many of the key leaders in astronomy teaching and education research.) ... A Guide to Teaching Your FirstAstro 101 Course (19 p.) . ...

Data and Phase Links . The maximum scientific data rate of downlink is 128 Mbit/s (total rate 144 Mbit/s). Data transmission is being done by VIRK communicationsystem through the high gain antenna at frequency 15.000 GHz. The downlink data stream is divided into frames each being 20 000 bytes long. ... Ground Support of the RadioAstron . ... Data Processing . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures . ...