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. ...

... From left to right, the columns list the machine acronym, the present access of the machines to outside users, the operating mode, total bandwidth (MHz), number of frequency channels, bandwidth per channel (kHz), shortest sampling interval (us), number of bits recorded per sample, number of polarizations recorded and the data storage method. ... Disk . ... Timing . ... Baseband . ... Data sampling: 4-bit in search mode, 6-bit in timing mode . ... Mode(s) of operation: baseband recording and timing ....

... Meta Index / Home Page / Output Files / Summary File specification from There will be 6 instrument details records, one for each instrument, following the file details record. ... After each instrument details record there will be n exposure records, where n is the number of exposures during the observation for that instrument. ... Number of exposures . ... Identifies the record as an Instrument Details Record . ... If the instrument was inactive then this value is zero and no exposure records...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

Magnetic field measurements onboard the Interball Tail spacecraft are carried out by the FM-3I instrument which consists of two flux-gate magnetometers covering two different ranges: [-200, +200] nT and [-1000, +1000] nT. Besides scientific goals, the FM-3I experiment data is used to perform the attitude control of the Interball Tail spacecraft. ... August 22, 1995 . ... October 18, 1995 . Top of the page . ... Back to the Interball Home Page . ...

STIS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Chapter 12: Special Uses of STIS > 12.9 Parallel Observing with STIS . ... 12.9.1 Coordinated Parallels: Using STIS in Parallel with Other Instruments . ... Coordinated parallels, in which you explicitly link the taking of exposures in parallel to your own prime scientific exposures. Pure parallels, in which exposures are taken in parallel with other observers? prime exposures. ...

... The ARC echelle spectrograph records the entire visible and near-IR spectrum in one exposure on a 2048 x 2048 SITe CCD chip with 24 micron pixels, with a resolution of 30,000. (2.5 pixels) . ... CCD is a SITe TK2048E back illuminated CCD . CCD is a 2048 x 2048 pixel array . ... Field of View: Available slits (Observing Specialist installable): 1.6" x 1.6" , 1.6" x 3.2" (default), 1.6" x 4.7", 0.9" x 0.9" (pinhole) . ... 31.6 grooves/mm, blaze angle b = 63.5 deg (nominal), or tan b = 2 . ...

... Aidan Hotan Curtin University Orange 2010 Summary Design philosophy, data pipeline (Bailes et al.) ... Monitoring and control 64 MB/s each Primary Node 2 (Memory Buffer) Serial control Primary Node 1 (Memory Buffer) Archives Switch (1Gb) Node 1 Node 2 Node 3 Switch (1Gb) Node 1 Node 2 Node 3 Raw data files written to disk for processing Node 14 Switch (100Mb) Node 14 Orange 2010 CPSR2: Commissioning Stage (Around back) Parallel cables from FFD to DMA cards in head nodes. ... Ethernet switch (x2). ...

... The channel of digital data transmission can operate with the rate up to 40 Kbit/s and the channel of analog information makes it possible to transmit the data with the band width up to 60 KHz. ... The onboard data collecting unit, STS, is installed to collect the analog and digital information from the complex of scientific payload and from the subsatellite service systems. ... STS unit has the following features: . ... The following organizations took part in design of the data collecting system: ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... SHANNON W. LUCID (Ph.D.) . nasa astronaut (former) . ... She is qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews. ... A veteran of five space flights, Dr. Lucid has logged 5,354 hours (223 days) in space. ... Dr. Lucid retired from NASA in January 2012. ... In completing this flight, Dr. Lucid logged 838 hours and 54 minutes in space. ... FEBRUARY 2012 ...