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Preparations continue for the launch in November 2009 of the specialized cargo spacecraft/module Progress M-MRM2 with the Mini Research Module MRM2. The specialized cargo spacecraft Progress M-MRM2, which includes the Mini Research Module MRM2, is now undergoing leak tests. In the vacuum chamber of the processing facility of Area 254, the hull and the on-board pneumatic and hydraulic systems of this module are being checked for leakages. ...

... Registration form . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences invites you to participate in the all-Russian scientific conference "Asteroid-Comet Hazard-2005" which will be held 3-7 October 2005 in St. Petersburg. ... Batrakov Yu.V. Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS, St.Petersburg . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS . ... Finkelstein A.M. Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS, St.Petersburg . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS, St.Petersburg . ...

... Tiny Tim has been used for generating Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) point-spread functions (PSFs) for deconvolution, algorithm testing, proposal planning, and optical studies. ... Tiny Tim is a stand-alone program for simulating HST PSFs as viewed with the on-board imaging cameras (WF/PC-1, WFPC2, FOC, COSTAR/FOC). ... The measured aberrations for FOC f/96, WF/PC-1 PC6, WFPC2, and COSTAR/FOC are used by Tiny Tim . ... Figure: FOC f/96 observed and Tiny Tim model PSFs (pre-COSTAR) at 253 nm. ...

... For a timeline of the exploration of the magnetic environment of the Earth, Sun and Planets, see here . ... Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) builds the first astronomical telescope and observes for the first time craters on the Moon, satellites around Jupiter, and the way Venus goes through phases like the Moon (crescent, etc.) ... 17 December--First successful flight by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. ... 16 March--Goddard launches his first liquid-fuel rocket. ...

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Using a database view Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), containing almost a million spectra created 15,000 sample galaxies with active star formation, which is used for various studies and physical state of evolution of galaxies. ... Star clusters of the Galaxy . The project MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) directory using 2MASS, which includes nearly 500 million vision to the limit Ks = 15.3, analyzed more than 4,000 cluster-like objects in the galaxy. ...

... The extraordinary solar activity of October--November 2003 manifested itself in many powerful eruptive events, including large CMEs and extremely powerful flares. ... We study large-scale post-eruptive activity manifestations on the Sun associated with CMEs, i.e., dimmings and coronal waves, observed in extreme ultraviolet with the EIT telescope on SOHO and SPIRIT telescope on the CORONAS-F satellite. ...

Russian . Main . News . ... Minutes of the Telecon on January 17, 2012. ... News of the RadioAstron mission on the Lavochkin Association site up to September 15, 2011 (in Russian). News of the RadioAstron mission up to September 3, 2011. News of the RadioAstron mission on the Lavochkin Association site (in Russian). News of the RadioAstron mission up to August 18, 2011. ... Second version of the RadioAstron Mission Operations Handbook ( in Russian )is placed on the project site . ...

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Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

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. My astronomical research interests center on galaxy structure and evolution. Current topics include: . Polar-ring and interacting galaxies (see also new catalogue ) . Galaxy warps: statistics, properties and origin . Spiral galaxies at z~1: radial and vertical structure of stellar disks, statistics of interactions . Surface photometry and kinematics, dynamical modeling . Observational cosmology . Joomla Counter since Sep 1997

. October, 1999 . The plan was set up to conduct "Space Development : Theory & Practice- 2000" International Workshop on April 1 - 10, 2000. The workshop is a part of the YSC annual workshops program and continues the line including FPSpace-96,-97, SpaceDTP-98 and SpaceDTP-99 workshops.

To the Deputy Head of the Administration of Russian Federation President Mr. A.V.Ogarev . ... First the international space station (ISS) Alpha, which is under construction now, will compare to the OS Mir on the amount of information only in 5-7 years. ... Thirdly, the participation of Russian Federation in the international space projects, including work on the international space station (ISS) Alpha, is to be aimed first of all at the providing of Russian interests. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... FileљStructure . FileљList . FileљMembers . core . ... StelSkyLayerMgr.hpp File Reference . Define the classes needed for managing layers of sky elements display. More... #include <QString> . include <QStringList> . include <QMap> . include "StelModule.hpp" . ... Go to the source code of this file. class љ . ... Manage the sky background images, including DSS and deep sky objects images. ... Definition in file StelSkyLayerMgr.hpp . ...

Prague, August 16, 2006 . The main GCVS problem is that it is no longer a GENERAL catalogue of variable stars (in fact, it even never was). The GCVS always was a catalogue of galactic variables, with a minor number of extragalactic stars that were included mainly by misunderstandings. ... Recently, many thousands of new variable stars were discovered in automatic survey projects (for example, some 30000 non-GCVS stars solely in the ASAS-3 project). ...

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... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Swedish Space Corporation s (SSC) PRISMA and French Space Agency s (CNES) PICARD satellites have been delivered to the Yasny launch base. ... Concurrently with the preparation of the launch from the Yasny launch base, ISC Kosmotras carries out TanDEM-X launch campaign at Baikonur cosmodrome. ... Dnepr LV . ...

To see a Russian version of this page, click here . ... Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Physics in 1976. Ph.D. degree - 1988, MSU. Main field of scientific activities: photometric investigations of various stars, close binary stellar systems and other astronomical objects, including research with use of fast photoelectric photometry with a high time resolution till 1 millisecond. ... New portable photometer . ... Send your mail to: tem@sai.msu.ru ...