... A nasty dispute between the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) and the space-science community was narrowly averted early this year when SDI officials backed down on a planned launch of a satellite with a Russian-built nuclear reactor on board. ... Early Soviet space reactors orbited for two to three months, and two Soviet Topaz 1 experiments, one for six and one 12 months, created radiation belts that disrupted the operation of scientific satellites. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Area of science: Astronomy . ... My idea is as follows: A very strong concrete foundation is attached to "Earth" a cable made of some increadably strong material is attached on to a giant powered pully wheel, the capble runs out into space aprox 400 miles ! ... In his novel "Fountains of Paradise" Clarke uses that idea: take a cable 40,000 km long and drop it from the satellite to the spot directly underneath it on the Earth and secure it. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Access . ... We present the results of the development of Sternberg Astronomical Institute Catalog Access Services (SAI CAS) project - the first and the only project in Russia, which provides online access to the major astronomical catalogues and different services on top of them. ... SAI CAS is an open-source implementation of the general Catalogue access service (influenced by SDSS CAS CASjobs project), based on original algorithms and open-source software. ... SAI MSU | ...

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Shematovich, V.I . ... Shematovich, V.I., and Bisikalo, D.V. Kinetic simulation of rarefied gas in the aeronomy problems. ... Shematovich, V.I., Bisikalo, D.V., and Gerard J.-C. Superthermal particles in the planetary atmospheres. ... Shematovich, V.I., Bisikalo, D.V. Nonequilibrium processes in the planetary and cometary atmospheres. A kinetic approach to modeling, . ... Shematovich V.I., Gerard J.-C., Bisikalo D.V., and Hubert B. Thermalization of O(1D) atoms in the thermosphere ( abstract ). ...

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