NASA's Galileo spacecraft, now in orbit around the planet Jupiter, this morning began the first scheduled return of data from its companion atmospheric probe that parachuted into the jovian atmosphere last Thursday. ... Forty minutes of data collected by the probe stored in the orbiter's onboard computer memory will be radioed to Earth over the next four days and presented to Galileo scientists for analysis. ... Space History Galileo . ...

... A small yet powerful planning and scheduling toolkit has been built for the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite ( SWAS ) Small Explorer spacecraft. ... The simple design, minimal resource requirements and easy extensibility of the SWAS planning and scheduling toolkit should make it useful for other space astronomy missions. ... The relatively severe time and manpower constraints for the development of the SWAS Planning and Scheduling toolkit have forced it to remain small and simple. ...

Tail Probe is one of the satellites of the INTERBALL program. ... Collection of the orbital elements | ... Flight situation analysis during operations scheduling . ... Two stages of the orbital situation analysis are presented: . ... The satellites motion calculation during the flight situation analysis is based on the orbital elements, determined by the Ballistic center at KIAM RAN. The modified (by backward integration) orbital elements are usedduring the aposteriory situation analysis. ...

... Applying the Lessons Learned from HST Operations to New Missions" , presented at SPIE's International Symposium Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation . ... Portable Astronomical Scheduling Tools" presented at the ADASS V Conference . A System for Long-Term Scheduling of Ground-Based Observatories" ( html , postscript ) presented at the Conference on New Observing Modes My technical papers, as well as those by STScI colleagues are available on-line. ... Spike planning and scheduling system . ...

... Mars Global Surveyor: Aerobraking . ... Completing a 10 month journey, another spacecraft from Earth arrives at Mars today. The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) is scheduled to fire its main rocket engine for 22 minutes at 6:17 p.m. Comet Hale-Bopp Outbound . ... Outbound at about 12 miles per second it is presently nearing the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. ... A Green Flash from the Sun . ... It's a green flash from the Sun. ... A Map of Asteroid Vesta . ... Luna 9: First Soft Lander . ...

... Main . ... The RadioAstron is an international space VLBI project led by the Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, Russia. ... List of organizations which were taken part in developing of the project and now support the RadioAstron mission is presented here . The RadioAstron Newsletter # 29 , July 18, 2015. RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity - 4 for observations from July 2016 to June 2017 inclusive. ... 2.7, December 17, 2015 : English version. ... Main ASC . ...

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. ...

Allocation of Tidbinbilla 70m time for ATNF proposals NASA allocate approximately 300 hours per year of Host Country time on the 70m antenna. This time is used for single-dish and LBA observations. ... This is far from ideal given 6 month terms for ATNF, which must be scheduled about two months in advance of the term starting, compared to JPL scheduling which goes out to only about 4 months in the future. ... The details of the Deep Space Network schedules are defined about four months in advance. ...

This session will provide a forum for a discussion of variety of topics in Astrostatistics following the Special Session "Lectures on Astrostatistics" held on Wednesday morning. It will also anticipate the "Time-Domain and Applicable Methodologies" session scheduled for Thursday morning. ... 111.02 - Andreas Hans Wilhelm Kupper -- Exploding Satellites - The Tidal Debris of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Hercules . ... Moderators: Aneta Siemiginowska (CfA) and Vinay Kashyap (CfA) . ...

... The mesopause region is the coldest and least accessible part of the earth's atmosphere. ... Nighttime studies by airglow techniques present their own uncertainties and are unable to resolve either the vertical spatial or the temporal structure of this dynamic region. Resonance lidars have been applied to the study of the thermal structure of the earth's mesopause region for about a decade, and only in the past year at Arecibo. ...