Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... By admin February 19, 2011 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . ... Since it was launched in 1999, the Stardust spacecraft has travelled about 5.7 billion km (3.5 billion miles) on its odyssey from Earth to comet Wild 2, back to Earth then on to comet Tempel 1. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

... 2011 February 16 . Comet Tempel 1 from Stardust-NeXT Spacecraft . Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , Cornell . ... Therefore, the unprecedented pass of the Stardust-NeXT spacecraft near Comet Tempel 1 earlier this week gave humanity a unique opportunity to see how the nucleus of a comet changes over time. Changes in the nucleus of Comet Tempel 1 were of particular interest because the comet was hit with an impactor from the passing Deep Impact spacecraft in 2005. ... About APOD | ...

... JPL , NASA Explanation: What happens when you crash into a comet? ... This coming July 4, the Deep Impact spaceship will reach its target - Comet Tempel 1 -- and release an impactor over five times the mass of a person toward its surface. ... The remaining crater may tell how Tempel 1 is constructed. ... Publications with keywords: spacecraft - comet . Publications with words: spacecraft - comet . ... Comet Holmes Over Hungary . A Tale of Comet Holmes . Comet Holmes Coma Expands . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Rocket Systems . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Sea Launch . ... News . ... At the launch site the pre-launch processing and launch operations were supervised by the State Commission for manned systems flight tests and the Technical Management for flight tests of manned space systems, headed by the RSC Energia President and General Designer V.A. Lopota. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... SHANNON W. LUCID (Ph.D.) . nasa astronaut (former) . ... She is qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews. ... A veteran of five space flights, Dr. Lucid has logged 5,354 hours (223 days) in space. ... Dr. Lucid retired from NASA in January 2012. ... In completing this flight, Dr. Lucid logged 838 hours and 54 minutes in space. ... FEBRUARY 2012 ...

... NASA Asteroid Orbiter . ... Launched on February 17, 1996, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is to be the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million. ... The ultimate goal of the mission is to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros in February, 1999, and study the asteroid for approximately one year. ...

... HST . Internal Molecular Contamination During System TV Test . ... Missions . ... Data . ... Future Missions and . ... Missions Office . ... HST Overview . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... During a recent System Thermal-Vacuum (STV) test of the Wide Field/ Planetary Camera (WF/PC-1), instrumentation was added to characterize the internal molecular contamination using a temperature controlled Quartz Crystal Microbalance (TQCM) and several ultra-violet (UV) light sources. ...

... Р?С?С?С?Р?Р?Р?Р?РеС?Р?С?Р?РеР? ... Launched on February 17, 1996, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is to be the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million. ... The ultimate goal of the mission is to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros in February, 1999, and study the asteroid for approximately one year. ...

... The Lunar Orbiter 3 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... The spacecraft was placed in a cislunar trajectory and injected into an elliptical lunar orbit for data acquisition. ... The spacecraft acquired photographic data from February 15 to 23, 1967, and readout occurred through March 2, 1967. ... The quality of recorded data ranged from good to excellent. ...

... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Picture of the Day . ... Astronomy Day . ... Stardust-NExT spacecraft prepares for Valentine's Day comet rendezvous . Data from the mission will provide important new information on how Jupiter-family comets evolved and formed. ... NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft is nearing a celestial date with comet Tempel 1 at approximately 11:37 p.m. EST February 14. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

MARS-96 . ... Scientific goals . ... At the end of the 1980's, the successful broad scientific exploration program of Venus was fulfilled, the successful mission to Halley Comet was completed and the mission to Phobos, having limited success, was also realized, At this time, Mars was chosen as the main object for future planetary exploration within the Russian Space Program. ... Earlier missions to Mars showed that this planet in its earlier history was much more similar to the Earth than that is now. ...

MINUTES of the RadioAstron Teleconference on February 21, 2006 V. Slysh chaired the teleconference. ... Engineering model of the MFS (18-26 GHz) on-board receiver has been fabricated, and it is now under the testing in the ASC. The flight model is expected in April 2006. ... Operational time of 18-cm receiver was prolonged till the end of 2007 (as a launch date).The flight model of the 92-cm receiver will be delivered to the ASC in May 2007. ...

... Artist?s conception of the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter, as seen from the Galileo spacecraft. At the time of the first impact, the comet fragments will be much farther apart than shown in this illustration. ... One orbit, computer May 18, 1993 by Syuichi Nakano, showed that the comet passed close to Jupiter in July 1992, and would pass within 45,000 kilometers of the center of Jupiter in July, 1994. ... The fragments of Shoemaker-Levy 9 move around Jupiter. ...

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): . ...

This is a copy of a Press Release from E.S.O. Eight years after the passage of Comet Halley in early 1986, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have succeeded in obtaining an image of this famous object at a distance of no less than 2,820 million km from the Sun. ... The image shows the 6 x 15 km avocado-shaped nucleus as an extremely faint point of light without any surrounding dust cloud. ... This observation was made with the ESO 3.58 metre New Technology Telescope (NTT). ...

DEEP IMPACT MISSION . First Look Inside a Comet . Participation Certificate . ... Alexander V. Wolf . ... Thank you for your participation in the Deep Impact Discovery Mission to Comet Tempel 1. A compact disc bearing your name will be mounted on the impactor spacecraft that will collide with Tempel 1 making this the first mission ever to look deep inside a comet. You are now part of the future discovery of clues about the beginning of our solar system as your name makes a Deep Impact! ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Март 1998 . ... Дата: 26 марта 1998 (1998-03-26) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: STARDUST Update - March 20, 1998 Привет всем! ... TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Galileo Europa Mission Status March 25, 1998 NASA's Galileo spacecraft is sending to Earth the final pictures and science information stored on its onboard tape recorder during the December 1997 flyby of Jupiter's moon Europa. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Deep Impact filme l'approche de la com†иte du si†иcle . ... L'arriv†йe de la com†иte ISON, qui pourrait devenir en d†йcembre 2013 l'une des plus grandes com†иtes de tous les temps, a †йt†й film†йe par la sonde am†йricaine Deep Impact. ... Etat du ciel . ...

OptInt PmWiki . MROI Delay Line / . Test Results . ... Page History | ... Requirements . ... Return to Test Results ( Edit ) . ... Restore . ... Performance Test Results (INT-406-VEN-0109) [MF] . ... Test results document relating tests to derived requirements [MF] . ... FDR test results: . ... Test results document relating to derived requirements . ... Index of FITS log files containing test results supporting FDR submission . ... Test results working document(s) (not for submission) . ...