Instrument . ... Scanning TV-sensor with on-board data recording system for global coverage mode . ... recording, direct transmission . ... IR-radiometer for global coverage and direct data transmission modes . ... The scientific instrument package onboard the Meteor-3 spacecraft provides for regular instant acquisition of images of cloudiness and Earth surface in visible and infra-red bands, data on air temperature and humidity, sea surface temperature and clouds temperature. ...

... 400mm f/2.8 Nikor lens: images the sky on the entrance slit. ... The optical system maintains image quality along the slit length so that each row of the image is a spectrum of that spatially selected region of the sky. 180mm f/2.8 Nikor lens: collimates the light from the slit. ... The auxiliary optical platform on WISPI now accomodates a short focal lens and a guiding/imaging video system that may use sub-pixel corrections to provide feedback to the tracking drive motors. ...

... October 6, 09:00 09:40 . Jorge Melnick (ESO) . ... We present a statistical and temporal analysis of the ground meteorological properties recorded at the five selected sites for hosting the European Extremely Large Telescope (EELT). ... Marc Sarazin (ESO) . The organization and development of the E-ELT site testing campaign by ESO are described. ... The E-ELT Site Testing activities in northern Chile and Argentina are reviewed, and pioneering explorative campaigns are illustrated. ...

... Standard magnitudes can only be computed for the U, B and V filters and hence the only standard colours that can be calculated are U-B, B-V and U-V. An important point to note, is that these standard colours can be computed using the following instrumental colours - U-B, B-V, U-V, (UVW1-U), (UVW1-B), (UVW1-V), (UVW2-B) and (UVW2-V). ... The program loops through these colours and if the relevant instrumental magnitudes are present computes the standard magnitudes and standard colour. ...

The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

... Scientific data acquisition. Control of scientific instruments. ... The scientific data acquisition systems are designed to ensure the flexible control and optimal operation of various scientific instruments and, on the other hand, to comply with the standard interface of spacecraft service systems. ... Currently IKI develops scientific data acquisition systems for various spacecraft: . ... SSRNI                          CORONAS- Ph oton           2007 . ... onboard time etc. ... data bit rate . ...

Participants of the High Performance Computing courses held at the Armagh Observatory. Staff and students from institutions throughout the island of Ireland have visited the Armagh Observatory to attend three advanced courses on High Performance Computing (HPC) over the 4-day period 16th to 19th February 2009. ... The advanced HPC courses were delivered by staff from the Irish Centre for High-End Computing and the National University of Ireland, Galway . ...

Magnetic field measurements onboard the Interball Tail spacecraft are carried out by the FM-3I instrument which consists of two flux-gate magnetometers covering two different ranges: [-200, +200] nT and [-1000, +1000] nT. Besides scientific goals, the FM-3I experiment data is used to perform the attitude control of the Interball Tail spacecraft. ... August 22, 1995 . ... October 18, 1995 . Top of the page . ... Back to the Interball Home Page . ...

. Russian Version [MS-Win] . [ News ] . [ Satellite data ] . [ SMIS ] . [ ] . IBM PC compatible personal computer with the following minimal required technical features: . CPU: 80386 and higher . not less than 4 MBytes memory . not less than 100 MBytes hard drive . at least Super VGA (256 colors) video system . The interface card complies with ISA standards and can be plugged into any IBM-compatible personal computer. Back to SMIS Home Page .

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . ... Five new devices of the total mass of ~42 kg (instead of 6 devices of the total mass of ~101 kg) are installed in the guidance, navigation and control system of the new series vehicle. ... liquid thermostatting of GN OC devices is provided by installation of three cold plates in the vehicle instrument module (IM); . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

sample1d - Resampling of 1-D data sets sample1d infile [ -Fl|a|c ] [ -H [ nrec ] ] [ -I xinc ] [ -M [ flag ] ] [ -N knotfile ] [ -S xstart ] [ -T x - col ] [ -bi [ s ][ n ] ] [ -bo [ s ] ] sample1d reads a multi-column ASCII [or binary] data set from file [or standard input] and resamples the timeseries/profile at locations where the user needs the values. ... Default is the separation between the first and second abcissa point in the infile ] -M Multiple segment file. ... Default is '>']. ...

... NASAs X 43A Scramjet Sets Air Speed Record . ... Credit: X-43A Development Team , DFRC , NASA Explanation: Using oxygen from the air itself, a NASA experimental jet propelled itself past Mach 7 in the atmosphere above the Pacific Ocean this weekend. ... Atmospheric oxygen was then scooped up, combined with onboard hydrogen , and combusted in flight to propel the X-43A to record air speeds during maneuvers over the next 10 minutes. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... 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 . ...

... a set of permissions associated with every file and directory that determine who can read it, write to it, or execute it. Only the owner of the file (or the super-user) can change these permissions. a mathematical term that refers to a number, character or word which changes the action of the command it is applied to. a standard code used for representing information on computer systems and networks. It uses the printing and non-printing characters that can be generated by the keyboard. ...

... STScI has undertaken a project to place all HST keyword information in one source, the keyword database, and to provide a mecha­ nism for making this keyword information accessible to all HST users, the keyword dictionary, which is a WWW interface to the keyword database. ... Along with form­ ing the headers for the science data, most keyword values are ingested into HST archive catalog fields where they are accessible for archive searches and data characterization. ...

... 141570 Mendeleevo, Moscow region, Russia, VNIIFTRI. ... Values r and t are the functions of time , but value c is the function of time in less extent and value d almost does not depend on time Step-by-step We produce comparison by comparison standard in several steps: Comparison standard (Leica TDA 5005) and retroreflector are calibrate on national state standard of length; Transfer comparison ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI VO Wiki . ... Program Access . SAI CAS Wiki . SAI Web Services . ... DSS Mirror . ... We provide an implementation of IVOA standard Simple Image Access Protocol interface to our DSS mirror. Service metadata is available here . Currently, we provide the atlas service only, which returns the list of original DSS images intersecting the requested sky area. ... SAI MSU | ...

... Source File: mod_negotiation.c . Module Identifier: negotiation_module Content negotiation, or more accurately content selection, is the selection of the document that best matches the clients capabilities, from one of several available documents. ... A type map (a file with the handler type-map ) which explicitly lists the files containing the variants. ... Apache only recognizes encodings that are defined by an AddEncoding directive. ... Content-Language: . ... Module: mod_negotiation . ...

... Fit the ring around the equator and then change its inclination from 0 degrees (equatorial orbit used by geosynchronous satellites) to 28.5 degrees (space shuttle orbit) to 51.6 degrees (space station orbit) to 90 degrees (polar orbit used by spy satellites). by Rob Landis, Space Telescope Science Institute . ... With so many satellites now in orbit, it is likely that you have seen an artificial satellite zipping across the night sky. ... http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftpsoft.html . ...