Target: Venus . The Soviet VEGA Spacecraft Two remarkable "busloads" of automated spacecraft were launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in December of 1984. Each one contains three separate modules: one lander and one balloon-carried atmosphere probe to be dropped off at Venus in June, 1985, and one major package of instruments which will continue on to encounter Halley's Comet in March, 1986. ... Venus and Earth: A Comparison . Earth . ... in Earth days) . ... 243 Earth days . ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Chirp ionosonde main technical characteristics . ... Linear frequency modulated continuous signals sounding method is relatively simple and has wide application in various special-purpose systems. ... Chirp signals which are applying for ionosphere channel diagnostics usually have10KHz/s -- 1MHz/s. We must point out that under modulation speed increasing there is an increase in noise suppression and resolution power. ...

... Expected NICMOS Performance after HST Servicing Mission 3 . NICMOS Cooling System Design . ... NASA is developing the NICMOS Cooling System (NCS) to provide operation of NICMOS beyond the exhaustion of its stored solid nitrogen cryogen. ... The NCS combines an external radiator identical in design to the ACS/STIS Aft Shroud Cooling System (ASCS) planned for SM3, a Creare, Inc. reverse-Brayton cycle turbine cooler, and an EVA installed neon loop to the NICMOS dewar's cooling coil. ...

... There are several other documents relevant to the MIDAS system. General descriptions of the system can be found in the following references: . ... Banse, K., Grosb?l, P., Ponz, D., Ounnas, C., Warmels, R., `The MIDAS Image Processing System in Instrumentation for Ground Based Astronomy: Present and Future, L.B. Robinson, ed., New York, Springer Verlag, p.431 For general bibliographic reference to the MIDAS system (VAX/VMS version), the first reference in the above list should be used. ...

... A star party is a gathering of amateur astronomers who set up their telescopes and observe the dynamic night sky. ... Star parties are best scheduled during first quarter and waxing gibbous Moon. During full moon, the moon is so bright it obscures a view of other celestial objects and even the Moon is best viewed when NOT full. ... We will consult local weather forecasters and make a decision by 2:00p on the day of the star party. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... We describe a simple method to annotate shell scripts and have a preprocessor extract a set of variables, present them to the user in a GUI (using Tcl/Tk) with context sensitive help, and run the script. ... When individual applications are (tightly) integrated into the scripting language, this offers very powerful scripts, fully graphical user interfaces and a result sometimes indistinguishable from applications. ... Here is an example header from a C-shell script with which Figure 1 was made. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... I Expected More Sense Than That. ... Post Message | ... Posted by Richard D. Stafford, Ph.D. on November 8, 2002 04:14:05 UTC . ... You are missing the point - harvey1 - November 8, 2002 - 13:10 UTC . I hope Stafford doesn't mind my intruding his forum - mrsouza - November 8, 2002 - 14:55 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... The top quark, discovered at the Tevatron in 1995 and not long ago re-discovered at the LHC, is strongly coupled to the Higgs sector and therefore expected to be related to electroweak symmetry breaking. ... I will talk about the basics of jet substructure analysis, our top tagging approach and several applications for top physics, especially stop searches and the potential of the ttbar forward-backward asymmetry measurement at the LHC. 4:00pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ... return to top . ...

... NASA's newest Great Observatory, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) -- formally known as the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) -- launched on July 23, 1999 and represents such an advance. ... Hughes Danbury Optical Systems (HDOS), now Raytheon Optical Systems Incorporated, figured and polished the x-ray optics; Optical Coating Laboratory Incorporated (OCLI) coated the polished optics with iridium; and Eastman Kodak Company (EKC) mounted and aligned the optics and provided the optical...

The Good Boy (Lemuel F. Parton) I have led a good life, full of peace and quiet I shall have an old age, full of rum and riot. I have been a good boy, wed to work and study I shall be an old man, ribald coarse and bloody. I have never slit throats, even when I yearned to. Never sang dirty songs that my fancy turned to. I have been a nice boy, and done what was expected I shall die and old bum, loved but unrespected. Recorded by Carl Sandburg @moral @age filename[ GOODBOY RG ===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY===

NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: Harold Drew Beck O RAL H ISTORY: 9 December 2004 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: B.S ... Control Tower School, Keesler AFB, Biloxi, MS (1951-1952) Roberts Company, Sanford, NC (1956) NASA EXPERIENCE: Langley Research Center , Langley, VA (1959-1961) · Aeronautical Research Engineer ... Harold Beck Service Record Card, Harold Beck Personnel File, Human Resources Office, NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. ...

The Russian Parliament will soon consider a bill that would restructure the Russian space program, 35 years after the launch оf Sputnik. ... But the legislation's most striking and controversial feature is a provision that would ban testing and deployment оf space weapons ? including anti-satellite weapons and space-based missile interceptors. ... A draft bill was written by a group of experts within the Moscow Space Club, several of whom now work on space issues with the Russian Parliament. ...

XmTel uses the XPA interface for extensible connection to the operating system and scripting. ... Support for several commercial telescopes and controllers under Linux .. ... Software Bisque Paramount ME (requires RTS2 library) . ... In the current version of XmTel .. ... Offers command line and scripted operation using XPA . ... Version 7 includes the XPA server, telescope drivers, a client, utility software, and a standalone option that does not use XPA. ... Previous versions and support for INDI . ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Winer Observatory) was incorporated in 1983 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity to perform basic research in astronomy, provide educational outreach programs, and provide site and maintenance services for small telescopes through cooperative agreements with other astronomical institutions. ... The picture at the top left of this page is of our facility near Sonoita, Arizona, approximately 50 miles southeast of Tucson, Arizona. ...

... 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. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2014 6 November 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ISCK documents ISCK Photo Gallery Contact information . ... File size 1.29 лА download . ...

. Better satellite instruments are improving measurements of solar energy reaching Earth. Exactly determining the contribution of solar fluctuations to rising global temperature is expected to become possible as new instruments, such as the Total Irradiance Monitor above, further refine solar measurements. The device is scheduled to launch next month on NASA's Glory spacecraft. NASA

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... Resolution No. 76 of January 21, 1999 Russian Federation Government. ... RSC Energy Conclusion about the possibility of continuing the exploitation of the scientific-research orbital complex Mir . ... RAS ISR' Conclusion on the scientific results received in the orbital complex Mir , the conditions of its systems and scientific equipment and the prospects of the Mir exploitation for the time of launching of the ISS. ... Copyrigth ї CosmoWorld, 2001 . Рецепты кабачки . Кулинарные рецепты. ...

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... NAS of Ukraine . ... 2016,MNRAS, 2016MNRAS.tmp.. ... Basic documents of MAO NAS of Ukraine archives : . Scientific-organization and administrative documents (list No. 1, vol. ... MAO NAS of Ukraine and Mt. ... Information about volume of MAO NAS of Ukraine archives fund on 01.01.2015 . ... Copies of lists Б„– 1, Б„– 2, Б„– 2-dis, Б„– 3-пљ are dispatched to the NAS of Ukraine Archive p.a. Chief of scientific and technical archive Liubov Kiziun, PhD . ...