... The spacecraft of Magion type have been selected as the subsatellites of the Interball project: Magion-4 (C2-X) for the Tail Probe and Magion-5 (C2-A) for the Auroral Probe. ... Magion-4 was produced in the Czech Republic in collaboratrion with Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Austria and has onboard scientific instruments and sensors designed and built in Czech Republic, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovak Republic. ... Plasma flow detector VDP-S (Czech Republic, Russia) . ...

... The geostationary or geosynchronous orbit is located at approximately 6.6 Re geocentric distance in the geographical equatorial plane. ... This means, with the stretched field line geometry, that the geostationary satellites may be at field lines threading distances considerably father away than 6.6 Re in the tail The energetic (30-2000 keV) electron fluxes at the geosynchronous orbit have been divided into two populations (Cayton et al., 1989): . ... 300-2000 keV, T=200 keV, n=1x10(-4) cm(-3) . ...

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... In addition, IZMIRAN comprises the St.Petersburg branch and magnetic ionospheric observatory in Kaliningrad. The history of IZMIRAN is largely that of investigating magnetic storms and sub-storms on the Earth surface, in circum-terrestrial and interplanetary space, initially by means of a network of ground stations of the Soviet Union (1930s - 1940s) and the nonmagnetic skunner "Zarja", then through the extensive use of magnetic measurements on artificial Earth satellites and automatic stations. ...

The Satellite Telescope of Electrons and Protons STEP . ... Precision measurements of the energy, angular, and time distributions in precipitating fluxes of high-energy charged particles with solar, magnetospheric, and anomalous cosmic rays origin. ... Both "STEP-DI" and "STEP-DII" have an identical construction of large solid angle telescope from 4 detectors (D1-D4), first 2 of which (D1-D2) are position-sensitive silicon strip-detectors; both D3 and D4 are scintillation CsI(Tl) detectors. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Observing . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Saturn's dynamic satellite . Water vapor and ice particles spew from the decades-old surface at Enceladus' south pole. ... But, then again, Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is no ordinary object. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... It is necessary to select a topic interesting from scientific point of view and simple enough to allow students understand and participate in all stages of experiment from measurements via data analysis to physical inference. ... Solar modulation effects and physical characteristics and analysis of the major solar events are possible only by joining data from space-born and surface particle and radiation detectors. ...

Design and Construction of the GHRS . ... The locations of important elements are shown. Figure 6.2: - The focal plane of HST and the definitions of the V2, V3, U2, and U3 axes in the coordinate system of the spacecraft. Figure 6.3: - Locations of GHRS apertures relative to spacecraft axes. Note that the sense of the x and y motions are shown by the arrows, but that the zero point for each aperture (LSA and SSA) is located at its center. ... Figure 6.4: - Optical Schematic of the GHRS. ...

... The Early Universe . ... NEAR to an Asteroid . ... Excitement mounts as NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft nears launch - currently scheduled for 3:53 ET on February 16. NEAR's mission is to become the first spacecraft to rendezvous with and orbit an asteroid, the asteroid designated 433 Eros. ... Pluto Not Yet Explored . ... Cold, distant, Pluto is the only planet in our Solar System which has not been visited by a spacecraft from Earth. ... The Eye of an Hourglass Nebula . ...

Instrument . ... Scanning TV-sensor with on-board data recording system for global coverage mode . ... recording, direct transmission . ... IR-radiometer for global coverage and direct data transmission modes . ... The scientific instrument package onboard the Meteor-3 spacecraft provides for regular instant acquisition of images of cloudiness and Earth surface in visible and infra-red bands, data on air temperature and humidity, sea surface temperature and clouds temperature. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Although they look tranquil here, observed up close such young stars would seethe and glare violently. ... Once thought to be a satellite of our own galaxy, increasingly the Small Magellanic Cloud is believed to be an interloper from the intergalactic void which has wandered into its present location and will eventually recede away into the darkness. ... Your email address will not be published. ...

... SSAU History . ... The Ground Control Complex for Small Spacecraft of Samara State Aerospace University took control of the satellites Aist-1 . ... The data received from SSAU scientific equipment on board of the satellites Aist-1 was processed by the engineers of the Rocket and Space Centre and then was transferred to the university scientists. ... On April 19, 2013 the first small spacecraft Aist-1 was launched from the space-launch complex Baykonur together with a research satellite Bion-M No. ...

... Project page . ... Project workpage . Turbulence in the Multiphase Interstellar Medium . Project I | ... Project highlight | ... Towards simulating turbulence with adaptive meshes . ... A. Kritsuk, P. Padoan, M. Norman . ... A. Kritsuk M. Norman . ... A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, P. Padoan . astro-ph/0411626 | ... P. Padoan, A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, A. Nordlund . ... Introducing Enzo, an AMR Cosmology Application . B. O'Shea, G. Bryan, J. Bordner, M. Norman, T. Abel, R. Harkness, A. Kritsuk . ...

The space between the planets is far from empty. It contains: electromagnetic radiation (photons); hot plasma (electrons, protons and other ions) a.k.a. the solar wind ; cosmic rays; microscopic dust particles; and magnetic fields (primarily the Sun's). While the Sun 's radiation is obvious, the other components of the interplanetary medium were not discovered until very recently. ... Except near some of the planets, interplanetary space is filled with the Sun's magnetic field. ... Sun .. ...

Mercury Summer 2011 Table of Contents . Plumes spray water ice out from many locations along the famed "tiger stripes" (fissures) near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Courtesy NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute. Evidence Indicates Icy Saturn Moon Hiding Salt . ... The plumes shooting water vapor and tiny grains of ice into space were originally discovered emanating from Enceladus by the Cassini spacecraft in 2005. ...

... If you arrive by train: . ... Trains from Moscow, other Russian cities to the south and south-east of St. Petersburg arrive at the Moskovskii vokzal, linked to the metro station Ploshchad' Vosstaniya. ... Domestic and some international flights arrive at the Pulkovo-1 terminal, from where one can reach the Moskovskaya metro station by bus No. 39 or "marshrutka" (routed shared taxi, express minibus) No. ... Location of Pulkovo Observatory (map) : . ... Location of the Workshop : . ... Copyright 2014....

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

Spacecraft STP Data 1. ... This CD-ROM contains solar flare reports, sunspot numbers and regions histories, total solar irradiance, and solar bursts. ... MAGSAT - 2 discs. ... A Compilation of 1963-1999 Solar Wind Field and Plasma Data, Near Earth and Deep Space - 3 discs. This CD-ROM contains the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) and solar wind plasma (SWP) data from several spacecraft which have explored the near-Earth and deep space regions over the last three decades. ...

Next: Explosive Events Up: Technical Research Summaries Previous: Dynamics of Co-orbital Satellites Contents . The solar group continues to make excellent use of both existing and new data from the SoHO satellite, in particular, data from the SUMER, CDS, EIT and MDI instruments, in addition to data from the TRACE satellite. ... A new line of investigation was started in late 2004, i.e. the origin of radio emission from brown dwarfs. ... Explosive Events . ...