... Module Kvant-2 was launched from Baikonur on November 26, 1989 by the LV Proton-K. It is divided into three air-tight parts with the total volume 59 m3. The total length of the module is 13.7 m; maximum diameter 4.3 m; mass at the launch 19565 kg. Mass of the useful load of the module is 5000 kg, of the fuel- 1100 kg. The area of the solar batteries is 53.2 m2 (6.9 kW). ... It docked to the nose docking port of the core vehicle and by its robot arm redocked to the side port. ...

... 1980 . ... A three-stage version of China's CSS-X4 intercontinental ballistic missile is being developed for various space applications. ... The rocket - to be known as "Long March 3"- has four gimbal-mounted engines in the first stage developing a com?bined thrust of some 280 tonnes. ... Four small gimbal-mounted motors provide thrust-vector control. ... The third stage, which employs LO 2 /LH 2 propellants, has four gimbal-mounted thrust chambers. ... CHINESE ASTRONAUTS. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration JSC's Aircraft Operations Division uses a unique tool--the Super Guppy-- to transport all sorts of oversized cargo. ... NASA S99-04740 Space Cen ter Roun d up The Roundup is an official publication of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, and is published by the Public Affairs Office for all Space Center employees. The Roundup office is in Bldg. ... It's Super Guppy! ...

... Problem 2. (a) Prove that the spaces R3 \ S 1 and S 2 S 1 are homotopy equivalent; here S 1 R3 is the standard circle lying in the xy coordinate plane. (b) Let X be the space R3 from which n copies of S 1 lying in parallel planes are deleted. ... Prove that the spaces R3 \ L and S 2 T2 are homotopy equivalent. For every continuous map f : S 1 S 1 one can de ne an integer deg(f ) so that the following statements are true: · Maps f1 and f2 are homotopic if and only if deg(f1 ) = deg(f2 ). ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteoritic data . Impact Crater Smerdyachee . ... Based on Smerdyachee's depth, near circularity, and its mounded wall, and analysis by N.A. Fillin of nearby Roshal, Russia, the Estonian scientists Yu.V. Krestlane and K.H. Mella proposed in 1987 that Smerdyachee Lake is a meteorite crater. ... In 2002, the Laboratory of Meteoritics of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences explored this mysterious lake. ...

Deep Time: Earth's history and future By Colin Johnston, Armagh Planetarium Earth 4.54 billion years ago Forms in Sun's protoplanetary disc S un Elsewhere in Solar System Other planets form. ... Hot and airless Sun a subgiant, diameter 1.5 its current value, 2 6.4 billion years from no w ? ... Earth cools 20 million years later? ... Core temperature about 55 million°C, helium flash, followed by the Sun shrinking Sun is 10 times its current diameter, luminosity 20-50% current value. ...

... Небольшое созвездие Волосы Вероники включает в себя сразу 8 из 109 объектов каталога Шарля Мессье . ... M98=NGC 4192 : bright, very large, very much extended 152deg, magnitude 10.1m, angular diameter 9.9' x 2.2'. Right ascension: 12h13m48.18s, Declination: +14 53' 42.7", Hubble class: Sb . Alternate names: MESS 98, NGC 4192, UGC 7231, MCG 3-31- 79, CGCG 98-108, IRAS12112+1510, VCC 92 . ... Right ascension: 12h18m49.35s, Declination: +14 25' 06.9", Hubble class: Sc . ...

... Contacting and discussing with people sharing your interests, participating in night sky observations with telescopes as well as a large choice of astronomical books, magazines and video-tapes out of our club library. ... A reasonable compromise for observing both planets and brightest deep sky objects ( nebulae, galaxies) are either a 4 to 8 inch mirror telescope ( Newton, Schmidt-Cassegrain ) or a 3 to 4 inch refracting ( lens) telescope. ... Where can I buy a telescope in Luxembourg ? ...

... The main design features of the mirror system of the RT-32 are as follows [1]: . The carcass of the primary mirror is formed as a three-dimensional, welded steel tubular rod system that is highly statically indeterminate and therefore very durable. ... The supporting and driving maschinery of the antenna is T-shaped, so it has a very massive vertical stanchion (its length is 15m and diameter 2.3 m). ... Diameter of the primary reflector, D - 32 m . ... 1997 год . ... Нар.газета N 107 11.06.1997 . ...

... Courtesy of NASA/ESA Observation data (J2000 epoch) Constellation Right ascension Declination Redshift Distance Type Serpens Caput 15h 17m 14.4s[] +21° 35 08[] 12,740±50 km/s[][1] 600±30 Mly (183±8 Mpc)[1] SA0(r) [citation needed ] [a] Apparent dimensions (V) 0.28 в 0.28[] Apparent magnitude (V) 16.0[] Notable features Ring galaxy Other designations PGC 54559,[] PRC D-51[] See also: Galaxy, List of galaxies Hoag's Object is a non-typical galaxy of the type known as a ring galaxy. ...

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... 295, 2003 H. E. Payne, R. I. Jedrzejewski, and R. N. Hook, eds. The COBRA/CARMA Correlator Data Pro cessing System Stephen L. Scott1 , Rick Hobbs1 , Andrew D. Beard1 , Paul Daniel1 , David M. Mehringer2 , Raymond Plante2 , J. Colby Kraybill3 , Melvyn Wright3 , Erik Leitch4 , N. S. Amarnath5 , Marc W. Pound5 , Kevin P. Rauch5 , Peter J. Teuben5 Abstract. ... The COBRA hardware and computing architecture described here will be the basis for the two CARMA correlators. ... CARMA Scott et al. ... 2003). ...

... The concepts of Fourier frequency and wavelet duration are obviously related. ... Among many sensible definitions, we chose to require that the peak of the wavelet mean spectrum should be matched with the singularity of the Fourier transform of the cosine wave. Then, it can be shown that the frequency of the cosine is related to the wavelet duration by the relation . ... The ambiguous definition of the duration of an event is common to the sizing of any object of irregular shape. ...

... Space flight . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... The "Hydrospace" program is a unique complex of engineering facilities and is intended for training cosmonauts for their operations in outer space. ... The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory includes : . ... A mock-up of the "Orlan-M" EVA-suit; . ... Air- and water supply systems complex; . ... The air- and- water supply systems are intended for provision of EVA- suit, diving equipment and diving decompression chamber with air and water. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Ceres, the largest asteroid in the solar system is about 900 kilometers in diameter. ... How many asteroids do you think there are larger than 100 meters across (0.1 kilometers)? ... Using the numbers he supplied, I calculated how many asteroids there are larger than 100 meters in diameter. ... A billion asteroids 100 meters across would occupy the same space as a single asteroid with a radius of the cube root of one billion times 100 meters. ...

Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute Specification 2.5 m telescope with enclosure version 7.6 |Number|Item description, type |Quanti| | ... 1000 |2.5 m mirror telescope system |1 | ... lightweighting) must provide the short time of | ... stations (ports) must be provided. ... 1006 |Nasmyth focal stations must be provided with a deployable| | ... must be provided. ... Telescope control system and environment conditions | ... 2005 |Camera shutter must provide unvignetted CCD field, | ...

... The main field of my investigations is stellar spectrophotometry. As a result of scientific activity of our group spectrophotometric catalog was created including energy distribution data on 900 stars in the range 3200-7600AA and 250 stars in the range 6000-10800AA (Voloshina et al., Spectrophotometry of Bright Stars, ed. I.N.Glushneva, 1982, Moscow, Nauka, in Russian). ...