... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... News . ... Russian logistics spacecraft Progress M-04M, after two days in free flight, docked with the International Space Station (ISS). ... All the dynamic operations were performed by mission control specialists under the supervision of the Technical Management (The Technical Manager is the President and Designer General of the S.P. Korolev RSC Energia V.A. Lopota). ...

... Last year Russian Academy of Sciences and Roscosmos proposed to include the Lander for investigation of the Jupiter Moon Europa as an additional element of EJSM/Laplace international mission to Jupiter system. The main scientific objectives of this element will be a search of possible present and past signatures of life and ‘in situ’ studies of the environment by remote and contact methods. ... Synergy between Lander and EJSM/LAPLACE mission spacecraft (including possible joint experiments). ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... According to Ron Miller, author of the respected history of spaceship concepts The Dream Machines , the first known appearance of the tale in print was in the 2 October Тљ1909 issue of Scientific American where the hero was named т??Wang Tuт?? ... Naming a crater after Wan Hu т??the legendary Chinese inventorт?? was proposed shortly after the Soviet probe Zond 3 flew past the Moon in July 1965 returning images of the Moon?s western farside. ...

... 2000 February 5 . NEAR to Asteroid Eros . Credit: NEAR Project , JHU APL , NASA . Explanation: On December 23, 1998 the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft flew by asteroid 433 Eros . The robotic spacecraft was intended to brake and orbit Eros, but an unexpected shutdown of its main engine caused this plan to be aborted. Now closing with the asteroid again, NEAR will make another attempt to enter Eros ' orbit on February 14th .. ... About APOD | ...

Permitted Context: %text . ... The <IMG> tag is used to incorporate in-line graphics (typically icons or small graphics) into an HTML document. This element is NOT intended for embedding other HTML text. ... Browsers that cannot display in-line images ignore the IMG element unless it contains the ALT attribute. ... Take values TOP or MIDDLE or BOTTOM, defining whether the top or middle or bottom of the graphic should be aligned with the baseline for the text line in which the IMG element appears. ...

... Classes . ... casa::SpectralFit . ... SpectralFit (const SpectralList &in) . ... fit (const Vector < MT > &y, const Vector < MT > &x) . Fit the elements as given by the specified spectral elements at the frequencies x with values y. template<class MT > . ... fit (const Vector < MT > &y, const Vector < MT > &x, const Vector < Bool > &mask) . ... fit (const Vector < MT > &sigma, const Vector < MT > &y, const Vector < MT > &x, const Vector < Bool > &mask) . ... Bool casa::SpectralFit::fit . ...

Next: RSOG Pre-Observation Products . ... Mission Elements . ... The main mission elements (ME) are: . The RSOG, based at ASC, which is responsible for the science operation of the RadioAstron Mission. ... The Main Ballistic(Navigation) Center (MBC) belonging to Lavochkin Association coordinates preparation and exchange of orbit determination and orbit reconstraction ptoducts. ... Experiment codes of five characters are used in naming GRT related files. ... RSOG . ... Corr (GTS?) ... Corr (RSOG?) ...

... Format of the orbital elements | ... Collection of the determined by KIAM orbital elements valid for the backward integration of the spacecraft motion . Collection of the modified by IKI orbital elements valid for the forward integration of the spacecraft motion . Two kinds of the INTERBALL Tail probe orbital elements' collections are presented here. ... The backward in time integration was fulfilled at IKI for Tail probe orbit from now up to the launch. ... IKI RAN | SSC IKI RAN | ...

... Space flight . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... The system of SOS (Small Orbit Station) must base on the operation in various combinations of the following orbital objects - standard elements of SOS: . ... The cargo module-spacecraft "Docking module" (DM) designed for ISS, . ... Service power module (SPM) on basis of DM, . ... SPM, analogously to DM, is delivered (is actively docked) to the board of SOS within the cargo module-spacecraft. ... Projects / Space hotel: General description . ...

... When massive stars explode they create large radioactive blast clouds which expand into interstellar space. ... Possible locations of these stellar explosions known as supernovae, are indicated by the bright clumps in this map of the central regions of our Milky Way Galaxy. ... Aurora Astern . ... Painting with Solar Neutrons . ... Solar flares are propelled high above the Sun's surface by powerful, twisted magnetic fields. ... A Total Solar Eclipse . ... Asteroid Gaspra's Best Face . ...

... HST . ... Missions . ... Data . ... Hubble Heritage Project . Future Missions and . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... Figure 6.1: - The Hubble Space Telescope and its components. ... 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. ... Figure 6.4: - Optical Schematic of the GHRS. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Engineers of SSAU laboratory of additive technologies started to carry out experiments in the field of 3D-printing of metal parts, components and assemblies. The research of Samara scientists will allow producing highly complex and non-standard elements of spatial forms required for design and creation of advanced aviation and space technology. ... SSAU Laboratory of Additive Technologies is established in 2011. ... e-mail: ssau@ssau.ru . ...

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): . ...

HARP is the Heterodyne Array Receiver Programme for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. The programme is beginning with HARP-B, . ... February 2006 . ... The HARP-B project is a collaboration between Cavendish Astrophysics (MRAO) at the University of Cambridge, UK, The Joint Astronomy Centre at Hilo in Hawaii (operators of the JCMT), The UK Astronomy Technology Centre at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, The Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics of the National Research Council Canada . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Aurora . ... Corona . Fireballs . ... Zodiacal Light . ... The first thing to do is get acquainted with what the night sky looks like. ... The National Schools Observatory web site has very good horizon views of the sky for the current night. ... If the object is moving slowly across the sky then it may be one of the larger satellites. ... Cloudbait Observatory - October 2002 . ... October 2003 Aurora at Armagh . ...

Mathilde . ... On June 27, 1997 the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft flew flew past asteroid 253 Mathilde. ... On June 27, 1997 NEAR made a spectatular 25 minute flyby of Mathilde which resulted in more than 500 images of a dark, crater-battered little world that dates to the beginning of the solar system. ... This first image of asteroid 253 Mathilde, returned by the NEAR spacecraft just before 10:00 AM EDT on June 27, 1997, was taken from a distance of 1800 kilometers (1120 miles). ...

EPHEMERIDES OF MINOR PLANETS . The yearbook "Ephemerides of minor planets" (published since 1948) contains information on orbital elements of numbered minor planets and the circumstances of their observations during the best observation periods. ... orbital elements of 430405 minor planets, numbered as of March 5, 2015 and dates of their oppositions in 2016; . ... opposition ephemerides of minor planets; . ... information on the "Updated Ephemerides of Minor Planets" service; . ...

Core vehicle of the OS was launched on February 20, 1986 from the launching pad Baikonur by the launch vehicle Proton-K. It is the central binding element of the complex. The mass of the vehicle at launch was equal to 21000 kg; fuel mass- 1200kg. It has two main solar batteries' panels with area equal to 2*38 m 2 (capacity -9 kW) and additional panel fixed by the cosmonauts. ... Module has 6 docking ports (2 axial and 4 outlying) to dock the transportation ships and additional modules. ...

... Sun images . ... February : 2016 . ... Image of Sun's photosphere obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:40 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's magnetic field obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:52 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's transition region obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:39 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . Image of Sun's corona . Image of Sun's corona obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:39 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ...