. The Soviet hamma-observatory "Granat". "Granat" - is an orbital observatory for the space sourses of X-ray and mild hamma-radiation. It was led on the 1st of December 1989 by the Soviet launch vehicle "Proton" on the elliptical orbit of the Earth with the apogee of 200 thousand kilomitres 2 thousand km perihelion, 4 tones mass. The useful loading was 2300 kg (with scientific apparatus made in USSR, France, Dania, Bulgaria). Back .

... CI Cam is known to be a B[e] star and X-ray transient source. ... Figure 1. The light curve of CI Cam in residuals relative to the mean level of the slow variability (top) . The radial velocity curve of the HeII emission (middle) . ... The V light curve is shown in Figure 1 (top). ... Comparison of two CI Cam spectra in the region of HeII line. ... The radial velocity curve of HeII in CI Cam has a saw-tooth shape that may be an evidence of an elliptical orbit. ...

. S. G. Pugacheva and V. V. Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, 13 Universitetsky pr., 119992 Moscow, Russia, pugach@sai.msu.ru . Pugacheva LPS 41.pdf - 208K б . Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Universitetskii pr. 13, Moscow, 119992 Russia . Received December 21, 2009 . SSR-10(Busarev).pdf - 239 KB . V. V. Busarev . Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Universitetskii pr. 13, Moscow, 119992 Russia . Received December 21, 2009 . SSR-11(Busarev).pdf - 204 KB .

... Bad Astronomy . ... I mention Molniya orbits below, which are highly elliptical orbits that dip down as low as 200 miles, but get very high up. ... To someone on Earth, a satellite in geosynchronous orbit will stay at the same longitude (east-west) direction in the sky, but will move north and south over the orbit. ... Either way, geostationary or geosynchronous, the advantage of these orbits in intelligence gathering is obvious; it's like always having an eye in the sky over one part of the Earth. ...

... SSAU History . ... The Ground Control Complex for Small Spacecraft of Samara State Aerospace University took control of the satellites Aist-1 . ... The data received from SSAU scientific equipment on board of the satellites Aist-1 was processed by the engineers of the Rocket and Space Centre and then was transferred to the university scientists. ... On April 19, 2013 the first small spacecraft Aist-1 was launched from the space-launch complex Baykonur together with a research satellite Bion-M No. ...

... The software systems are described following the forward and back­ ward data flow to/from the satellite: starting from the Observation Pro­ posal reception and archiving, the long term observation scheduling up to the detailed weekly planning and telecommands sequence uplinking, and vice versa the scientific and housekeeping raw telemetry acquisition and archiving, quick look data analysis, data reformatting and distribution as a Final Observation Tape to the Observation Proposal PI. ...

... Research . ... Conferences . ... At the end of December every year from 2001, the traditional conference "High Energy Astrophysics Today and Tomorrow" takes place in the Space Research Institute (Moscow) . ... 22-25 Dec 2014 . The conference will be held at Space Research Institute. See the conference website for details (in Russian, translate button can be found in footer). ... The conference website . ... First All-Russian Astrophysics conference of this line held in IKI RAN. ...

... Magnetic storms online . ... Geomagnetic activity forecast . ... December : 2015 . ... No magnetic storm is expected . From 2 December 2015 to 28 December 2015 the following magnetic storms and disturbances are expected: . December 06, 2015 geomagnetic disturbances . ... December 08, 2015 geomagnetic storm of level G1 (minor) . ... December 21, 2015 geomagnetic storm of level G2 (moderate) . ... December 16, 2015 geomagnetic storm of level G1 (minor) 2 December 2015 - 28 December 2015 . ...

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