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): . ...

Ground Support of RadioAstron . Control and Tracking Stations . RadioAstron satellite control (command transmission, telemetry, orbit measurements) will be conducted from Evpatoria and Bear Lake control stations. ... Coarse orbit measurements will be carried out from control stations. Each measurement takes ten minutes. ... Orbit measurements at tracking stations give only radial component of spacecraft velocity but the measurements are going continuously during observing sessions. ...

YAMAL-200 COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE . Spacecraft Yamal-100, Yamal-200 were developed by the Corporation based on the S.P.Korolev RSC Energia-designed Multi-purpose Satellite Bus under a contract with Gascom within the framework of the Russian Federal SpaceProgram. ... Yamal-200 satellites were launched on November 24, 2003 at 9 hours 22 minutes, Moscow Time. Proton-K launch vehicle put the orbital module into its reference orbit. ... Orbit . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Instead, we only get timing information when data are dumped to the ground from the onboard computer from which we may infer when things happened. ... A UDL is always dumped from the spacecraft prior to the start of a science exposure, effectively flagging the start of the observation. ... For RAPID mode observations, the data are dumped as soon as they are taken. ... For ACCUM mode observations, a second UDL is dumped at the end of the exposure and prior to reading out any science data. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > Paranal Facilities > Paranal Science Operations . ... Paranal Telescopes . VLT Unit Telescopes . VLTI . ... Paranal Science Operations . ... September 2013: As mentioned in the CfP for P93 (section 5.1.2), ESO reserves the right to allocate time in Designated Visitor Mode (dVM) on the VLT(I) telescopes instead of in regular Visitor Mode. ... General VLT/VLTI Science Operations Policy as defined by the ESO Council (pdf) . ...

... We have developed an integrated system that performs astronomical observations in Near Infrared bands operating two-dimensional instruments at the Italian National Infrared Facility's ARNICA and LONGSP . ... The user interface is organized as widget-based X11 client. ... 1993; Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ... Moreover, if the interprocess communication interface includes support for networking, the software immediately becomes network distributed software. ... DESQview/X User Guide 1993, Quarterdeck . ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Staff list | ... Email discussion lists . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... VLBI . ... Arch | ... Date : Wed, 6 Jan 2016 15:13:14 +0000 . Hi Shinji, I have the meeting in my calendar for Feb 15 and 16. ... 2016.01.28 14:00 - 24:00 UT > 2016.02.06 15:00 - 23:00 UT > 2016.02.15 15:00 - 23:00 UT Is Feb 15-16 really ideal for the LBA meeting? ... Next message : John Dickey: "Re: LBA operations meeting 2016" . ...

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 . ...

Distributed Software for Observations in Near Infrared V. Gavryusev 1 and C. Baffa Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri E. Giani Dipartamento di Astronomia, Universit`a di Firenze Abstract. ... The processes denoted for control of hardware (telescope and other instruments) should be executed currently on PC dedicated for this task under DESQview/X, while all other components (user interface, tools for the data analysis, etc.) can work also under Unix. ... 1993, Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ...

Communications For Your Astronomy Event . Articles | ... Cheap radios, AM modulation and license free operation made this a very popular communication for mobile users like truckers, and civic minded groups like REACT International who provide volunteer radio communications for events. ... 26.9650 MHz . AM and SSB operation allowed in the US . 4.0 Watts . ... 26.9750 MHz . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

XMM-Newton Calibration Review Tool . ... News Latest News News Archive Newsletter Quarterly Status Report . ... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? ... Archive, Pipeline & Catalogues XMM-Newton Science Archive Pipeline Processing System Observation Data Status Time Correlation Fix Serendipitous Source Catalogue OM Serendipitous Source Catalogue Slew Survey Catalogue Latest Slew Results Browsing Interface for RGS Data Live Radiation Monitor Plots Radiation Monitor Files . ...

The National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center and Motorola Inc., which operates the IRIDIUM satellite system, have signed a Coordination Agreement. ... The Agreement guarantees that : . a) during scheduled observations in this band, between 10 pm and 6 am Miami local time, IRIDIUM's out-of-band emission will be below -238 dB W per meter sq. per Hz. level for all seven days of the week, . ... The complete document can be viewed here: ( NAIC-IRIDIUM Coordination Agreement ) . ...

... News . ... NASA's New Horizons to return to normal science operations after spacecraft anomaly . ... NASA s New Horizons mission is returning to normal science operations after a July 4 anomaly and remains on track for its July 14 flyby of Pluto. ... The investigation into the anomaly that caused New Horizons to enter safe mode has concluded that no hardware or software fault occurred on the spacecraft. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... honing the skills of performing the tasks of operating the orbital (suborbital) spaceship in a normal autonomous flight and in case of occurrence of off-optimum situations; . ... preparing for conducting visual observations, photographing and video filming envisaged by the flight program; . ... preparing the astronaut's body to the effect of space flight factors, honing the skills of operating the spaceborne medical facilities, rendering self and mutual aid; . ...

Next: Data reduction Up: Spectral observations and data Previous: SAO 6m observations . Further follow-up spectroscopy was made during nights May 30 - June 4, 1995, using the Boller & Chivens spectrograph attached to the Cassegrain focus of the Calar Alto 2.2m telescope. ... The observations were complemented by standard star flux measurements, lamp exposures for wavelength calibration, dome flats, bias and dark frames. ...

A computer controlled low light photometer for nightglow observations. Hardware units of portable photometer for low light measurements, especially night glow emission is described. ... Interface card contain three channels of 24 bit counter, 4 channels of 12 bit ADC and the buffer bus for the controlled motors of the altazimuthal fork mounting and filters wheel, the position encoders. ... Where N( ) is output signal photometer generated input light flux F( l ) . ... PMT # . 599 . ...

Next: Results & Discussion Up: Coronal Hole Diagnostics out Previous: Introduction . ... The dates of the observations discussed here, their locations, pointing, slit sizes and exposure times are given in BTDW. ... Line fits are given by the dotted line. ... An estimation of the errors in the derived parameters was obtained using the GA-derived parameters as an input for a ``classical'' IDL-CURVEFIT procedure (Peter, 1999; Peter & Judge, 1999). ...

NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: Thomas Rodney Rod Loe O RAL H ISTORY: 7 November 2001 30 November ... State College of Technology, Beaumont, Texas, Year Unknown PRE-NASA EXPERIENCE: Unknown NASA EXPERIENCE: NASA Manned Spacecraft Center /Johnson Space Center , Houston, Texas EECOM (Electrical, Environmental Communications Controller), Gemini Systems Section, Launch Flight Operations ... Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. ...

... 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. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... VSA . ... CAT . ... The Very Small Array is a custom-built radio telescope (operating between 26-36 GHz), designed expressly to make high resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation on angular scales around and below one degree. ... The VSA has been operated in ?compact array? and ?extended array? configurations (see the technical description below) and data collected to achieve high sensitivity in both regimes have been analysed. ... 1.75 GHz)...