... Pre-university education . ... Facilities and equipment . ... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Contacts . ... The scientists of Samara State Aerospace University have completed dynamic tests of the first Russian university nanosatellite SamSat-218D created by SSAU students. ... It has already passed the whole set of tests and transferred to the Rocket and Space Centre Progress . ... The whole test cycle of the nanosatellite SamSat-218D (Module Contact-Nanosatellite") will be completed in July. ...

Next: Mission Operations Data Transfer . ... VLBI Tape Management . VLBI Tapes . ... When: As soon as the correlator is satisfied with the correlator output. back to top . ... What: Each correlator will maintain a data base including the status of all VLBI tapes under its control. ... The correlators will distribute tapes to mission elements based on the Observation Summary File produced by the RSOG ( Observation Summary File ) to ensure each element has enough tapes to support SVLBI observations. ...

... Timothy L. Kopra (Colonel, U. S. Army, Ret.) NASA Astronaut . ... In this position, he primarily served as an engineering liaison for space shuttle launch operations and International Space Station hardware testing. ... He then served in the Space Station Branch of the Astronaut Office, where he was involved in the testing of crew interfaces for two space station pressurized modules as well as the implementation of support computers and operational Local Area Network on the station. ...

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT OF THE ERP PREDICTION METHOD BASED ON ANALYSIS OF 100-YEAR ERP SERIES Z.M. MALKIN1 , V.M. TISSEN2 1 Pulkovo Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia e-mail: malkin@gao.spb.ru 2 Siberian Scientific Research Institute of Metrology (SNIIM), Novosibirsk, Russia e-mail: tissen@mail.ksn.ru ABSTRACT. ... CONCLUSIONS The method of ERP prediction developed at SNIIM has been tested by comparison with the USNO results using 671 UT1 predictions for 2006­2011 and 423 PM predictions for 2009­2011. ...

... India (1999) xx, PINTofALE: Package for the Interactive Analysis of Line Emission V.Kashyap & J.J.Drake Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Abstract. ... It is based on a modular set of IDL tools that interact with an atomic database and with observational data. ... The package has been extended to handle analysis of high­resolution X­ray spectra that will be obtained with the Chandra X­Ray Observatory. Key words: X­rays, X­ray Spectroscopy, Stellar Coronae, Analysis Methods 1. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... space flight . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Experimental spaceplane completes research flight . ... Vega VV04 carrying ESA's experimental spaceplane, IXV, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on February 11, 2015. ... An experimental vehicle to develop an autonomous European re-entry capability for future reusable space transportation has completed its mission. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... Telescopes . ... Creation of the distributed net of control (DCN) of the 6 m telescope has been completed, which is based on the use of digital tracking drives and the means of commercial automatization to ensure the real-time processes of control and data acquisition. With changing to DCN, computer diagnostics of the majority of units of the telescope has been implemented, the reliability of its operation in the whole has been increased, its performance characteristics have been improved. ...

YAMAL-200 COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE . Spacecraft Yamal-100, Yamal-200 were developed by the Corporation based on the S.P.Korolev RSC Energia-designed Multi-purpose Satellite Bus under a contract with Gascom within the framework of the Russian Federal SpaceProgram. ... Yamal-200 satellites were launched on November 24, 2003 at 9 hours 22 minutes, Moscow Time. Proton-K launch vehicle put the orbital module into its reference orbit. ... Orbit . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

XmTel ----- XmTel is a Motif-based telescope control program based on INDI, the Instrument-Neutral Distributed Interface. ... See the files LICENSE and COPYRIGHT for the details. ... About Epoch ----------- XmTel assumes that the telescope is set to "Epoch of Date", which means that it is using ideal celestial coordinates precisely aligned today. ... XmTel assumes that target coordinates entered from the keyboard are in the Epoch that the telescope coordinates are currently displayed in. ...

DEVCON for LAN Systems!! ... PSP LAN Systems develops products that provide network operating system services (such as file, print, transaction, security and directory) for multiple operating systems (OS/2, DOS, Windows and AIX). ... PSP LAN Systems has identified an API (or development tools) strategy that provides an application development environment with industry standard APIs for application portability and object frameworks to assist developers with code reuse. ...

Next: Transparency of the Stochastic Up: Model of the Galaxy Previous: Frequency distribution of galactic . ... The parameters of the model resulted from a numerical fitting of various data, such as the observed distribution of the young star population and neutral hydrogen, the density of population II stars in the vicinity of the Sun, the galactic rotation curve and the dynamics and distribution of globular clusters   and dwarf irregular satellites of the Galaxy. ...

... Munching on Lunar Cheese . ... Rarely have most of us really watched a lunar eclipse. Let's observe the lunar eclipse this month and see what the shadow-play can teach us about Earth and its little mate. ... My grandparents came out, we sat on bales of hay in a field, ate our hot dogs and roasted marshmallows, and watched a huge full Moon fall into Earth's ruddy red shadow. ... The ancient Greeks knew this, too, and they saw Earth's circular shadow on the Moon during lunar eclipses. ...

... Other Planned Activities Include Solar Observing Astrophotography Presentations and CCD Demo's Field Trip to AAAP Observatory at Jenny Jump Workshop: Learning to Use Your New Telescope Plus Swimming (life guards provided), Fishing, Volleyball, Basketball, Hiking, Game room Kayaking/canoeing (bring your own) on two lakes and nearby Pequest and Paulins Kill Rivers Registration Fees Camping and RV -- $35.00 per person ($45 after June 9) Bunkhouse -- $45.00 per ...

... 145Slee,Roy Savage We present detailed radio and optical parameters for the stronger radio sources in 58 Abell cluster fields observed with the Very Large Array (VLA) using scaled arrays at 1.5 and 4.9 GHz. ... The cluster fields were distributed over 24 h of RA and between declinations +35 deg and -30 deg. ... Optical identifications Cluster Source Radio Centroid Optical Position EF Ang. ...

EMI test using VXD3 R20 assembly Nick Sinev, University of Oregon Outline The problem Why we want beam test? ... What do we need for test ? Conclusion January 7, 2005 Nick Sinev, MDI workshop, SLAC 2 The problem As you already know from M.Breidenbach talk, we had observed Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) effects in VXD3 operation. ... January 7, 2005 Nick Sinev, MDI workshop, SLAC 3 Why beam ? ... January 7, 2005 Nick Sinev, MDI workshop, SLAC 12 ...

... ASRAS HOME . ... Mees Observatory . ... Site . ... Weather forecast will be correct for the Farash Center . ... Through gracious donations from Marion and Max Farash and the Louis S. Wolk Foundation, ASRAS has been able to acquire a large piece of land well away from the city lights. ... The Marian and Max Farash Center for Observational Astronomy consists of an education center, maintenance building and 6 working observatories on a 17 acre plot of land just off route 64 in the hamlet of Ionia, NY. ...

... The following charts/text are intended as tools for monitoring the Type Ia supernovae ( SNe ) event visually or photographically (utilizing telescope equipped CCD equipment).The files include: A replication of The Type Ia SNe , V- magnitude (with data point checks from other cited references)and color index (B-V) templete (to indicate a general color-related trend of the type Ia ... I believe this might help alleviate some of the problems involving the making of acceptable amateur light curves...

... Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri . ... In an unexpected twist, recent observations have shown that the gas in the outer regions of this photogenic spiral is rotating in the opposite direction from all of the stars! ... Space Shuttle and Space Station Photographed Together . ... Usually, pictures of the shuttle, taken from space, are snapped from the space station. Commonly, pictures of the space station are snapped from the shuttle. ... A Last Landing for Space Shuttle Endeavour . ...

... MOUSER Over View . The design of a new generation fast spectrograph MOUSER (Multi Object Universal Spectrograph for Extragalactic Research) to be installed at the 6 m telescope is proposed. ... photometric observations in broad and narrow spectral bands with a 6'x6' field of view and an image scale of 0".30/pixel; . ... The spectrograph is to be installed on the field rotator of the 6 m telescope prime focus without a standard field corrector. ... Back to Laboratory Home Page . ...

... Precisely one month ago, on 11 July 2009, the last active area of the new solar cycle disappeared from the surface of the Sun. Over the 30 days following this, neither observers on Earth nor devices in space have been able to detect the emergence of any sunspots. ... Therefore, it seems that our star has once again returned to a state of deep solar "winter", following several sparks of activity in May-June 2009. ... To date, this period has lasted 30 days. ...