... View from a tower . ... in the launch table . One of 2 Energia-Buran launch pads converted from N-1. There is also one more Energia launch pad called Versatile Stand-Start Complex. ... The giant N-1 tower still exists. Moreover, it looks like most photos of Buran on the launch pad were shot from this tower. One of 2 N-1 launch pads. N-1 pads were later converted for Energia-Buran program. Proton launch pad. Mobile tower is moved away from the rocket. ...

StarShine-3: . ... The satellites are covered by nearly 1000 small, front-surface aluminum mirrors that are machined by technology students in Utah and polished by tens of thousands of students all over the world. ... And this is only small story about it. ... We will be able to measure the angular position of that satellite by observing sunlight flashes from small mirrors mounted on the surface of the satellite, as it passes across the starry sky before sunrise and after sunset.. ... Starshine 3 . ...

Borodkova and G.N. Zastenker Influence of the large and sharp solar wind pressure pulses on the magnetosphere: several case studies Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow , RUSSIA M. Dolgonosov (1), G. Zimbardo (2), A. Greco (2), and L. Zelenyi (1) Influence of the perpendicular electric field on ion beamlets in the magnetotail (1) Space Research Institute of RAS, Space Physics , Moscow , Russian ...

... The described algorithm is suitable for measurements of complex images of stars. ... a) the zero-based number of stars in the complex (multicentric) image, . b) set of preliminary coordinates - x i , y i , for all stars, index i is number of a star, . ... i - index of a star in the complex image; . ... These parameters are calculated by a nonlinear method of a least squares.The main output parameters of this algorithm are x i , y i ; where the index i is number of a star in the multicentric image. ...

... Space activity at the beginning of XXI-st Century view from inside G.M.Chernyavskiy STC for Earth Space monitoring of FSUE , Russia 1. The systemic approach in astronautics Everyone who has linked his life with astronautics and those who are interested in the future of the inhabitancy medium and its expansion up to cosmic scales, are troubled about the current state and development of space activity in the World and in the Native Land of the first artificial Earth satellite (AES). ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... Even though the DoD would ultimately select senior Air Force officials, US Navy oceanographers and Air Weather Service officers as shuttle payload specialists, MSEs would be the first personnel from an American military programme to go into space. ... One Air Force officer, Maj. ... Jacobson was concerned about shuttle launch delays and wanted the MSEs to understand that his mission, i.e., the launch of national security payloads, dwarfed their mission, flights in space by Air Force personnel. ...