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NIST Spetial Publication 500-220 . Guide on Open System Environment (OSE) Procurements . ... An Open System Environment encompasses the functionality needed to provide interoperability, portability, and scalability of computerized applications across networks of heterogeneous, multi-vendor hardware/software/communications platforms. ... The Open System Environment concept has become ubiquitous throughout both the public and private sectors. ... ACQUIRING AN OPEN SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT 11 . ...

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... Portrait of an Infant Solar System . ... This infant solar system was discovered posing along the lonely outskirts of the Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud, a star forming region 500 light-years from Earth. Enlarged in this infrared false-color portrait from the European.. Cone Nebula Infrared Close Up . ... Adrift 1,500 light-years away in one of the night sky's most recognizable constellations, the glowing Orion Nebula and the dark Horsehead Nebula are contrasting cosmic vistas. ...

... The French-Russian Poncelet Laboratory organizes the conference on "Random Processes, Conformal Field Theory and Integrable Systems", September 19-23, 2011, to take place in the Independent University of Moscow. ... In the last decades, the understanding of these processes has greatly benefited from the use of conformal field theory (CFT) and integrable systems (IS) which have been widely studied in the community of theoretical and mathematical physicists. ...

Free Space Optical Communication Systems . ... Airplane - geostationary satellite laser communication. ... Air ( space) optical communication systems ( AO ) . ... The Optical ground station was constructed at Teide observatory, Tenerife, Canary Islands for laser communication experiments from ground to geostationary (GEO) satellites. ... Laser communication experiments between ARTEMIS satellite and optical ground station (OGS) ESA at Canary Islands are performing also. ... CW laser test experiments . ...

... Most Important Journals . Less Popular Astronomical Journals . Physics . Space, Selectial mechanics, .. Russian Journals . ... Astrophysics & Astronomy . ... Astronomical Journal . ... New Astronomy . ... Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . ... STScI News . Space Telescope Insitute Newsletter . ... Journal of Astronomical Data . ... Journal of High-Energy Physics (mirror in CERN ) [astro, grav, hi-energy .. ... Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics . ...

... Created: 22 January 2001 . ... SERVICE AND CALIBRATION MANUAL . ... Draft Document Outline. ... 4 Preparing NIFS for Use or Storage . ... The purpose of this Service and Calibration Manual is describe the procedures used to service, maintain, and calibrate the operation of the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph. ... Section 19.4.2 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Service and Calibration Manual . ...

The following companies have been solicited to participate in the I.V. League, a group whose products and services will support and promote OS/2 2.0 : CATEGORY (NUMBER ENLISTED) COMPANIES WITH 2.0 PRODUCTS WITHIN 90 DAYS COURSEWARE and TRAINING PROVIDERS (25) ATI Available soon Applied Learning Soon Computer Training Ctr Now Denenfeld Systems Design May Kee Systems ... Denenfeld Systems Design 519-396-8088 Service: Training available in May 10. ... IDG Books Service: Publisher 38. ...

NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: John William. Kiker O RAL H ISTORY: 5 May 1999 12 May 1999 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: BS in Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1951 M ILITARY EXPERIENCE: Officer, United States Army Air Force (1944-1946) PRE- NASA CAREER: Pilot and commercial flight instructor, Georgia Air Service, Bennettsville, South Carolina (1943-1944) Officer, United States ... NASA Fact Sheet 199. ...

The form on this Web page allows specifying a celestial position for which the full 4x4 degree NVSS FITS image is desired. ... Other services of the NVSS survey include: . ... NVSS Postage stamp (small FITS or jpeg file) server . direct ftp to NVSS 4x4 deg. FITS image and documentation server . NVSS source catalog and software ftp server - but please note that you will need to schedule an overnight job for a quiet time slot to download the 150Mb CATALOG.FIT file to avoid timeouts etc. ...

... Special Reports Giant space cloud may be powered by black holes 17:57 23 April 2007 NewScientist.com news service David Shiga An enormous cloud of roiling plasma in space may be drawing its energy from black holes, new observations suggest. Such clouds might be sources for the mysterious particles that occasionally crash into Earth's atmosphere at ultra - high speed. ... But higher energy particles in the cloud may be able to escape, he says. ...

The IAA RAS . ... View details . ... Observatories 'Svetloe' and 'Zelenchukskaya' participate in frequent VLBI-observation sessions organized by the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry . ... As part of collaboration with the U. S. Naval observatory in the areas of EOP determination and analysis the USNO uses IAA RAS daily EOP data obtained from SLR and VLBI. ... The IAA RAS and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales carry out joint DORIS observations on the Badary observatory. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... On 9 September 2009, a contract was signed between ISC Kosmotras and SSTL for the launch of Nigeria-2 and NigeriaSat- у satellites on Dnepr rocket as part of 2010 cluster launch from Yasny Launch Base. According to information provided by SSTL the NigeriaSat-2 satellite is being built for the Nigerian government (NASRDA) as a follow-on to the NigeriaSat-1 satellite that was launched in 2003. ... E-mail: info@kosmotras.ru . ...

. Outer Natural Satellites Orbits Ephemerides. Choose a system of satellites .

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

As announced by the IAU Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams in Circular No. 9004 on 11 December 2008, Bulletin C36 of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service announced that a positive leap second will be added on 1 January 2009. ... Bulletin C is mailed every six months, either to announce a time step in UTC or to confirm that there will be no time step at the next possible date. Daniel GAMBIS Head Earth Orientation Center of IERS Observatoire de Paris, France ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... CDS GLU, a Tool for Managing Heterogeneous Distributed Web Services P. Fernique, F. Ochsenbein and M. Wenger Centre de Donn’ees astronomiques de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'universit’e, 67000 STRASBOURG ­ FRANCE, Email: question@simbad.u­strasbg.fr Abstract. ... In the data base %ActionName %Description %Url simbad Simbad query by identifier http://simbad.u­strasbg.fr/simbad?id=$1 In the GLU dictionary Figure 1. ...

The XPA messaging system provides seamless communication between many kinds of Unix programs, including X programs and Tcl/Tk programs. It also provides an easy way for users to communicate with these XPA-enabled programs by executing XPA client commands in the shell or by utilizing such commands in scripts. ... A program becomes an XPA-enabled server by defining named points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with other client programs (and users). ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Space Flight . ... This is a recent (November 2011) NASA diagram summing up the past, present and future (plus a might have been) of US rocketry. €аThe rockets are arranged from left to right in order of size. ... It is towards the larger end we find the most familiar vehicles in the shapes of the Shuttle (NASA?s recently retired Space Transportation System ) and Saturn 5 (still the most capable US launch vehicle to actually fly). ...