. October 26, 2002. Baikonur cosmodrome. The fourth visiting crew inspected Soyuz TMA-1 in its launch configuration in the processing facility. Orbital module of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle, containing Soyuz TMA-1 spacecraft was transported from the spacecraft processing facility to the launch vehicle processing facility for integration. Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . E-mail: mail@rsce.ru .

... The ut1.dat file contains the corrections made to UT1R -TAI time which is used by the Tempo and Tempo2. ... The corrections are published monthly by the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS) in several IERS bulletins . ... This is done by downloading the eopc04_IAU2000.62-now from http://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/eop/eopc04_05/ to $TEMPO2/earth directory. ... This produces a file ut1.tmp in the /iers directory . cd to $TEMPO2/clock/ and check that the local version of ut1.dat is up to date. ...

. Discovery returns to the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3 where Raffaello, the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, sits inside. The module, which contains trash and equipment removed from the International Space Station, will be removed from Discovery's payload bay and transferred to the Space Station Processing Facility. NASA/KSC

... Main . ... The RadioAstron is an international space VLBI project led by the Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, Russia. ... List of organizations which were taken part in developing of the project and now support the RadioAstron mission is presented here . The RadioAstron Newsletter # 29 , July 18, 2015. RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity - 4 for observations from July 2016 to June 2017 inclusive. ... 2.7, December 17, 2015 : English version. ... Main ASC . ...

... Gallery . ... On Wednesday 7 January 2009 the International Year of Astronomy was officially opened in Ireland, in the presence of the President of Ireland and NI Minister for Education, in a most impressive launch ceremony, at the BT Young Scientist Festival in Dublin. ... Robert Hill announcing the official opening of the UN's International Year of Astronomy 2009 in Ireland, while being warmly congratulated by the Northern Ireland Education Minister, Caitriona Ruane . ...

... Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 103907, Russia. ... Proceedings of International Seminar on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems, Moscow, Russia, June 16-18, 1992 , vol.1, pp. ... The principles of information processing (storing information, associative memory, image recognition) in nonlinear systems with dynamic chaos are studied. The use of complex dynamic regimes in solving certain information problems is shown advantageous with respect to the methods based on simple dynamics. ...

... Why is this moon of Saturn so smooth? ... Astronauts on board the International Space Station first saw it far in the distance. ... Its early morning launch to orbit from Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A followed the long, graceful, eastward arc seen in this 2 minute time exposure. Teide Sky Trails . ... Pictured above, the space shuttle Endeavour lifted off in yesterday's early morning hours from Launch Pad 39A in Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA, bound for the International Space Station (ISS). ...

... The working principle of liquid mirror telescopes (LMTs) is first reviewed along with their advantages and disadvantages over classical telescopes. ... Figure 2: Entire liquid mirror telescope system. ... For the case of multiplely imaged quasars, we find that direct imagery with the 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) will lead to the detection of approximately 50 new gravitational lens systems ( , ). ... Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics, Li?ge University, Belgium .. ...

The Astronomical Journal welcomes new submissions at IOP Publishing . ... From: Andrew Wray < andrew.wray@iop.org > . ... On behalf of the IOP-AAS Project Team, I am delighted to announce that IOP Publishing is now processing all new submissions to the AJ. Submitting a new article . To submit a new article to the journal, go to http://authors.iop.org/aj , where you will find our beta version of the new AJ web submission site. ... Refereeing an article . ... IOP Publishing . ...