The Stone Age Observatory. It is well known that a lot of ancient constructions are oriented according to the cardinal points but not long ago scientists turned upon archeological monuments. ... The ancient monuments studied by archeoastronomy had been used for observing the sun and the moon. ... They are called megalits (from Greek "megas" - "great"; "litos" - "stone"). ... The Great Stonehang. ... Orby called it a Heel Stone because he had seen a small hole in it looked like a heel trace. ...

... Space research, space communication including TV and radio communication with using satellite systems, Earth and ecological monitoring, the use of satellite, navigation and topogeodesic systems, manned missions, material production in space and lots of other operations could be related to space activity. ... A special 5-year program was developed involving regular Shuttle missions with join crews. ... БИК 2-3 system and "Symbol D" system telemetry data are used to control the Station; . ...

... The paper tracks basic evolution of the Soviet rocket and space industry after the 1946 and analyzes "genealogical trees" of the original enterprises (NII-88, NII-885, OKB-456, etc.) to reveal typical features of this evolution. ... The paper tracks basic evolution of the Soviet rocket and space industry after the 1946, when an original set of institutions was established. ... The study demonstrates, that the evolution of the Soviet rocket and space industry is more complicated, than usually...

... The author attempts to approach the problem from the positions of systems analysis with account for the ideological grounds and history of space activities in Russia and abroad, comparing its current interpretation with the initial goals posed by leading theoreticians and practitioners who stood at the cradle of the space exploration era. ... The space systems recognized in Russia as priority projects are largely developed with violations of the systems approach principles. ...

PRELIMINARY DEVICE PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATION Revision 0.4 July 21, 2006 KODAK KAF-16803 IMAGE SENSOR 4096 (H) X 4096 (V) FULL-FRAME CCD IMAGE SENSOR ** THE OUTPUT GATE BIAS WAS CHANGED BEFORE THIS PART WAS RELEASED TO PRODUCTION. ... 6 Dark Reference Pixels .. ... 26 ©Eastman Kodak Company, 2005 www.kodak.com/go/imagers Revision 0.4 Preliminary MTD/PS-XXXX p2 Soldering Recommendations .. ... Eastman Kodak Company, 2005 www.kodak.com/go/imagers Revision 0.4 Preliminary MTD/PS-XXXX p19 8. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

... astro-ph . ... SAI VO . ... Design, analysis, and testing of a microdot apodizer for the apodized pupil Lyot coronagraph (Research note). ... Application to extremely large telescopes . ... Following the development of an early demonstrator in the context of the VLT-SPHERE project (~2012), we manufactured and tested a second APLC prototype in microdots designed for extremely large telescopes. ... The maturity and reproducibility of the APLC made with microdots is demonstrated. ... SAI MSU . ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... Summer space schools as the effective form of operation above international educational space projects . ... In 2003 and 2004 Russian - European summer space schools have been carried out with students participation from 15 universities of Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Poland, the Great Britain. ... Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 2005-2006 . ...

... SATELLITE: An object that revolves around a planet. ... SIDEREAL DAY: The length of a planet's rotation period relative to the stars. SOLAR SYSTEM: The sun and all the objects that are held in its gravitational field and move around it. ... SUPERIOR CONJUNCTION: The position of a planet when it is on the opposite side of the Sun from Earth (thus making in invisible). ... TRANSIT: The movement of an object between the Earth and the Sun and showing on the surface of the sun as a black dot. ...

Princeton Treasurer: Ron Mittlestaedt (609) 771-6981 C8User@aol.com Secretary: Ludy D'Angelo (609) 882-9336 ldangelo106@comcast.net Program Chairman: Ken Kremer (609) 558-4955 ken@princetonastronomy.org Editor: Victor Belanger (609) 448-8598 vic@apink.com Assistant Director: John Miller (609) 252-1223 jmiller@princetonastronomy.org Volume 35 From the Director May 2006 Number 5 AAAP Annual Meeting May 9 (8:00 Peyton Hall) ... Steve is a leading member of the Mars Rover science team. ...

QUASI PERIODIC ORBITS IN THE VICINITY OF THE SUN- EARTH L2 POINT AND THEIR IMPLEMENTATION IN SPECTR-RG MILLIMETRON MISSIONS I VA N I L I N , A N D R E W T U C H I ... RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 24th International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics Laurel, Maryland, 5-9 May, 2014 APPLICATION OF QUASI PERIODIC ORBITS NEAR LIBRATION POINTS ESA space telescope Gaia launched on 19.12.13, direct ... Dynamics and Mission Design near Libration Points - Volume 1. ...

LaserS . ... However to use a laser ray with a view of illumination it is so irrational how to heat a room burnt in a fireplace bank notes. ... Light ray! ... To laser engineering of all a quarter of century, however lasers had already time to win strong positions in many branches of a national economy. ... For example, practically instant punched hole of holes laser radiation many times over augments productivity of operation of the driller and besides essentially raises quality of this operation. ...

This document covers stopping and restarting Apache on Unix and Cygwin only. ... Then the parent itself exits. ... It re-reads its configuration files, and re-opens any log files. ... Note: If your configuration file has errors in it when you issue a restart then your parent will not restart, it will exit with an error. ... The USR1 signal causes the parent process to advise the children to exit after their current request (or to exit immediately if they're not serving anything). ...

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