... The first person to orbit the Earth was the Russian Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The first American to do so was John Glenn, who completed three orbits on February 20, 1962; more than 26 years later, at age 77, Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle. ... Any manned mission faces the problem of safe return to Earth, which requires getting rid of the huge amount of energy associated with orbital motion. A spacecraft in low Earth orbit moves at about 24 times the velocity of sound. ...

Since the days of Sputnik and Explorer 1, thousands of spacecraft have gone into space, some of them carrying human passengers. The first person to orbit the Earth was the Russian Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The first American to do so was John Glenn, who completed three orbits on February 20, 1962; more than 26 years later, at age 77, Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle. ... in orbit. ... Manned satellites include various " space stations " intended for long-term residence. ...

Scientists Discover Surface Features on Titan . ... Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... Peter H. Smith of the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and his team took the images with the Hubble Space Telescope during 14 observing runs between Oct. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ...

... Astrophysics Group . Graduate Research Opportunities 2016 . Available research projects/areas . ... Astrophysics Admissions Form . ... This includes active participation in the development of new instruments as well as the use of ground and space observatories. ... Further details are available at the following web site: http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/research/extragalactic-group-2/ . ... Our research group has a wide range of expertise in the development of receivers for radio astronomy. ...

The following images of the icy surface of Ganymede, the Solar System's largest moon, were made by the Galileo spacecraft during its ongoing mission to explore Jupiter and the Jovian system. ... This image was taken when Galileo was 7,448 kilometers (4,628 miles) away from Ganymede; north is to the top of the picture, and sunlight illuminates the surface from the lower left nearly overhead (77 degrees above the horizon). ... The image was taken June 27 at a range of 7,448 kilometers (4,628 miles). ...

... Data access . ... Updated data on the current orientation of the spacecraft Coronas-Photon in the ecliptic coordinate system. ... Data are updated 4 times a day. download the data for three months . download the data for all time . download the data for three months . ... The TESIS observatory (LPI) . TESIS: www.tesis.lebedev.ru . 1953-2016 Laboratory of X-ray astronomy of the Sun, LPI RAS, Russia . ... 7(499)132-65-96, Fax: +7(499)132-65-97 . ...

... Satellites with a known cross section (usually spherical) can be used to calibrate ground based radars. ... A list of radar calibration satellites by launch year can be found ( here ). more sat info: http://www.astronautix.com/fam/miletsat.htm . ... Class : Military . Type : Radar calibration target. ... USAF Sat Cat : 900 . ... Summary : Space craft engaged in investigation of spaceflight techniques and technology (US Cat A). ... USAF Sat Cat : 902 . ... USAF Sat Cat : 1520 . ... Agency : USAF . ...

... Looking down on a storm (image credit: Robert Johnston) . Spearheaded by the Project Lead Robert Johnston of Cookstown High school, along with the support of Gerard McStocker from Holy Trinity College and the тАШhighlyтАЩ experienced High Altitude Balloonist Philip Heron , this leading edge school project has left us gazing into the sky! ... The Sun from the stratosphere just north east of Dublin (Image credit: Robert Johnston) . ... The limb of the Earth (Image credit: Robert Johnston) . ...

... The (very) slow rotation of magnetic Ap stars. ... Magnetic stars in young clusters and associations. ... Magnetic fields in low-mass stars from high-resolution infrared spectroscopy. ... Magnetic field measurements of late B-type starss. ... Measurement of magnetic field of FK Com. ... Magnetic field of white dwarfs. ... The magnetic star evolution project (teleconference). ... Conference-2014 . Program . ... Laboratory for the Stellar Magnetism Study of SAO of RAS . ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

... WISE is achieving 5sigma point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1, and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on the ecliptic in bands centered at wavelengths of 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 mum. ... The WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog is available in compressed (gzip or bzip2) ascii form. ... Users should be aware that the Catalog table is extremely large. ... For complete documentation of the WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog and the All-Sky Data Release, please see the Explanatory Supplement . ...

... Peter J.K. "Jeff" Wisoff (Ph.D) . NASA Astronaut (former) . ... A veteran of four space flights, STS-57 in 1993, STS-68 in 1994, STS-81 in 1997 and STS-92 in 2000, Dr. Wisoff has logged a total of 42 days, 56 hours, 1 minute and 48 seconds in space, including , 19 hours and 53 minutes of EVA time in three space walks. ... Following 183 orbits of the Earth in 269 hours and 46 minutes, the eleven-day mission ended with Space Shuttle Endeavour landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California. ...

... Since 2011 our observatory is a member of GLORIA (GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science) project - wide international collaboration of 13 scientific institutions from 8 countries aiming at opening public access to robotic telescopes, as well as propagating astronomy in general. The GLORIA Project offers Internet users the possibility of studying the sky from professional observatories. ... The experiments are available at the users site of GLORIA. ... About GLORIA . ...

Spacecraft STP Data 1. ... This CD-ROM contains solar flare reports, sunspot numbers and regions histories, total solar irradiance, and solar bursts. ... MAGSAT - 2 discs. ... A Compilation of 1963-1999 Solar Wind Field and Plasma Data, Near Earth and Deep Space - 3 discs. This CD-ROM contains the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) and solar wind plasma (SWP) data from several spacecraft which have explored the near-Earth and deep space regions over the last three decades. ...

... Instructions for saving » Search for another transcript » NPR home page Profile: NASA to launch probe to Pluto January 17, 2006 from Morning Edition RENEE MONTAGNE, host: If all goes well, NASA will launch the first spacecraft to Pluto today. The New Horizons probe will be launched on the fastest interplanetary rocket ever. ... NPR's Richard Harris explains. ... Max Mutchler from the Space Telescope Science Institute says the astronomer who asked for the pictures was then too busy to look at them. ...

... VS experiment codes are VSOP Survey Observations VT Test/Calibration Observations --------------------------------------------------------------------- EXPNO SOURCE FRQ Corr DOY DY: DATE UT RANGE #TEL TELESCOPES V028a2 J1733-13 L Socr 156 Su:Jun-04 06:00 - 13:00 11 VLBA TI W030e2 J1733-13 C Socr 157 Mo:Jun-05 04:00 - 13:00 11 VLBA CD W031b VS01m W030e3 J1733-13 C Pent 157 Mo:Jun-05 13:00 - 20:00 4 HH CD UD KA W031B W030f1 J1911-20 C ...

Target: Venus . The Soviet VEGA Spacecraft Two remarkable "busloads" of automated spacecraft were launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in December of 1984. Each one contains three separate modules: one lander and one balloon-carried atmosphere probe to be dropped off at Venus in June, 1985, and one major package of instruments which will continue on to encounter Halley's Comet in March, 1986. ... Venus and Earth: A Comparison . Earth . ... in Earth days) . ... 243 Earth days . ...

Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... GSC 4232-02515, NSVS 3147658, NSVS 3174760 . ... 14.2-14.9 (R, NSVS); . ... During observations of a secondary eclipse of GSC 04232-02830 (Goranskij et al., 2005) on August 8, 2007, we identified GSC 4232-02515 as a W UMa eclipsing binary. ... VAST software was used for aperture photometry. ... This method produces a light curve with an arbitrary zero point. ... Light Curve . Light curve of GSC 4232-02515 in NSVS magnitude scale. ... gsc423202515_kadar_nsvs.dat . ...

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 . ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Февраль 1998 . ... Дата: 10 февраля 1998 (1998-02-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: NASA Says Lunar Ice Rumors Wrong Привет всем! ... Дата: 10 февраля 1998 (1998-02-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Lectures at JPL on Near-Earth Asteroids Привет всем! ... Дата: 10 февраля 1998 (1998-02-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Images Of Mars '98 Landing Zone Reveal Strange New Terrain Привет всем! ...