Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Concept Spacecraft . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... October . ... By admin September 30, 2011 Posted in: Human Exploration . Gemini Spacecraft: The red and gold spheres in the Equipment Module are propellant tanks and the red cylinder in the nose is the parachute pack. ... Image credit: NASA) . ... Amazingly in 2011, an outfit called Space Operations Inc proposed launching updated Geminis (rebadged as Eclipse spacecraft) for commercial clients! ...

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JSC Turns 40 Home | ... Gallery . Johnson Space Center at 40 Years Imagery . low res (49 K) . S69-39813 --- View of activity at a row of consoles in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, Building 30, during the Apollo 11 lunar landing. ... On Dr. Gilruth's right is George M. Low, manager, Apollo Spacecraft Program, Manned Spacecraft Center. ... Curator: JSC Web Team | ...

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Lunar Libration . Articles | ... Actually, a slight rocking motion, called libration,* makes about 59% of the Moon's surface visible from our planet Earth -- though only 50% at any one time. ... Add to that, the approximate 1.5 degree tilt of the Moon's equator to the ecliptic, and you have the inclination of the Moon's equator to the plane of its orbit around Earth at some 6.5 degrees (5 + 1.5 = 6.5). ... Re-published on Astronomy Net with permission of the author. ... www.astronomy.net . ...

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home education > resources . ... Activities . ... Has an NSF-funded project called TYC21, which brings together regional groups of community college physics and astronomy instructors [see appendix , or consult the web site: http://www.aapt.org/programs/tyc21/tyc.html . ... National Radio Astronomy Observatory: . ... Project ASTRO's The Universe at Your Fingertips: An Astronomy Activity and Resource Notebook, 800+ pages of activities and resources for teachers at all levels, especially grades 4-12. ...

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OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... The Primary Expedition 7 crew International Space Station (ISS) - Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko (ISS-7 commander, Soyuz TMA-2 commander), American astronaut Edward Lu (ISS-7 flight engineer, Soyuz TMA-2 flight engineer-1) - and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, Visiting Expedition 5 (VE-5) flight engineer, Soyuz TMA-2 flight engineer-2 Pedro Duquer of Spain have returned to Earth in the Descent Module (DM) of the Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft. ...

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... But there also exists a practical angle: in a world increasingly dependent on electricity and electronics, the "space weather" outside the atmosphere can have serious effects, in particular on human communications. Currently more than 200 communication satellites circle the Earth in synchronous orbit . ... For a view of NOAA's "space weather report," click here ; another such report, from the University of Michigan, is linked here . ... Another such event occured April 7-11, 1997 . ...

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... К вопросу возможной модификации двигателя Шкадова и ее перспективах для решения некоторых задач SETI . ... А.Л.Зайцев . ... КОНЕЦ СОЦИУМА И ПРОБЛЕМА SETI . Л.М.Гиндилис . ... ОБОСНОВАНИЕ METI . ... Борис Николаевич Пановкин о познаваемости мира и о возможности связи с внеземными цивилизациями (к 80-летию со дня рождения) . ... Alexander Zaitsev . ... КНИГА ОБ ЭВОЛЮЦИИ И ВНЕЗЕМНЫХ ЦИВИЛИЗАЦИЯХ (Рецензия на книгу А.Д.Панова Универсальная эволюция и проблема поиска внеземного разума (SETI) . ...

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Астрономия и Космос Небесные тела Планеты и их спутники . Видимым парадом планет называется планетная конфигурация, когда пять ярких планет Солнечной системы (Меркурий, Венера, Марс, Юпитер и Сатурн) в своем движении по небосводу подходят друг к другу на близкое расстояние и становятся видны в одно время в небольшом секторе (10 - 40 градусов) неба. ... Из выше описанного видно, что парад планет можно наблюдать, либо вечером, либо утром. ... Не пропустите ОСЕННИЙ ПАРАД планет 2002 года! ...

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... Aurora from Space . ... Magnetic Storms . ... Solar fast Particles . ... Currently more than 200 communication satellites circle the Earth in synchronous orbit . ... Another effect of magnetic storms (and to lesser extent, of substorms) is a greater intensity of the electric currents circulating between Earth and distant space. ... One spacecraft would orbit near Earth, the other would be stationed elsewhere in the Earth's orbit around the Sun, capturing a sideways view of solar eruptions. ...

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Next: HST Paper Products: A New Way to Look at HST Data . ... After providing on-the-fly re-calibration of HST data to archive users, ST-ECF has embarked on a new project aiming at grouping, cosmic ray cleaning and drizzling images taken by most HST instruments. ... The production of the missing jitter files combined with the extraction of additional engineering parameters will greatly enhance the homogeneity and the scientific value of the entire archive. ... 1995, HST Data Handbook, STScI, 107 . ...

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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): . ...

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• SPECTRUM-X-GAMMA

... Taken from the NASA/JPL information summary "Our Solar System at a Glance". The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) automated spacecraft for solar system exploration come in many shapes and sizes. ... Electrical power is required to operate the spacecraft instruments and systems. ... Between 1959 and 1971, NASA spacecraft were dispatched to study the Moon and the solar environment; they also scanned the inner planets other than Earth -- Mercury , Venus and Mars . ...

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... Artist's concepts of two ATLAST designs . ... ATLAST: Characterizing Habitable Worlds (Postman et al. ... Science drivers and requirements for an Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST):Implications for technology development and synergies with other future facilities (Postman et al.) ... A 16-m ATLAST Mission Design (Lillie et al.) ... Conceptual Design for a 16-m Segmented UVOIR Space Telescope (Korechoff et al.) ... Science with an 8-m to 16-m ATLAS Telescope (Postman et al.) ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Dawn team members check out spacecraft . ... Mission managers for NASA's Dawn spacecraft are studying the spacecraft's ion propulsion system after Dawn experienced a loss of thrust June 27. ... On June 30, Dawn team members were able to trace the reset to an internal error in the instrument's central processing unit, though they don't yet know why the internal error occurred. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article....

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... Space flight . ... Simulators . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... The "ATLAS Aerospace" company invites all the volunteers to pass a course of space training in the simulators of the Yuri Gagarin Russian State Scientific-Research and Test Center of Cosmonaut Training. ... The staff of the Mission Control Center regularly participates in such training, thus enabling to improve its interaction with the crew. ... Copyright 2000-2016 ATLAS Aerospace . ...

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... The total mass of the scientific payload is about 2500 kg, of which the unfolding parabolic 10-m radio astronomy antenna's mass is about 1500 kg, and scientific package holding the receivers, power supply, synthesizers, control units, frequency standards and data transmission radio system - near 900 kg. ... The jet system is a hydrazine thrusters system: it will be used during the creation of the base system of spacecraft orientation, for unloading of the powered gyros, and for orbit corrections. ...

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... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... PULSE@Parkes . ... This set of pages is from NRAO, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, the American equivalent of Australia Telescope National Facility. ... Project CLEA have a (Windows only) free program Radio Astronomy of Pulsars that allows you to simulate radio observations of pulsars and the use of a radio telescope. ...

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Peremennye Zvezdy ( Variable Stars ) 33 , No. ... The new variable star HD 305629, with a Cepheid-like light curve, is demonstrated, from our optical observations and ASAS-3 data, to actually be an ellipsoidal variable star on a highly eccentric orbit. ... During a systematic search of variable stars in the publicly available ASAS-3 database (Pojmanski 2002), apparent variability was found in the star HD 305629 (10 51 34 35, -60 47 57 4, J2000.0; Fig. ... The light curve and color curves of HD 305629. ...

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... Enhanced HST Pointing and Calibration Accuracy: Generating HST Jitter Files at ST­ECF M. Dolensky, A. Micol, B. Pirenne and M. Rosa Space Telescope ­ European Coordinating Facility, Karl­Schwarzschild­Str. ... The Pipeline In order to generate the missing jitter files a pipeline was set up (Figures 1 and 2). ... Both the Mission Schedule and the AEDP subset files are retrieved from the Data Archive and Distribution System (DADS) at STScI. ... 94 STScI started producing obs logs on a regular basis. ...

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