... 21.12.2005 Baikonur Cosmodrome. From the Baikonur cosmodrome at 21:38:20 Moscow time a Progress M-55 Transport Cargo Vehicle has been launched. ... At 4:00 a.m. Moscow Time, the transporter with the Soyuz-U launch vehicle and the Progress M-55 spacecraft left the Assembly and Testing Facility and arrived to the launch pad for the final pre-launch processing. ... Photo-report . ... The Russian Soyuz TMA-7 manned transport spacecraft docked to the International Space Station Orbital Complex. ...

2015 . ... A priory National teams of countries consist of winners and prizewinners of National Astronomy Olympiad take part in IAO. ... Как правило, каждую страну на IAO страну представляет команда, составленная из победителей и призеров национальной астрономической олмпады. ... In the case of absence of a National team from a country, organizers of IAO may permit any provinces, regions, cities of this country to form the team representing the country. ... National team may consist of: . ...

... SSAU scientists, specialists and students were engaged in creation of new scientific equipment for the new satellite for about two years. ... It will participate in the first launch campaign from the space-launch complex Vostochniy. ... The first launch from Vostochniy will perform the Samara carrier rocket Soyuz-2.1a , which will orbit another device created by SSAU scientists and students - nanosatellite SamSat-218 , as well as the university spacecraft Mikhail Lomonosov (Moscow State University)....

RESOLUTION of the International Scientific Technical Conference WPLTN-2012 1. ... We take note that nano-gradient optical coatings have a good future in laser-ranging systems. ... Having an opinion that the collocation of various space geodesy measurement technologies has a fundamental role in increasing the accuracy of fundamental and applied positioning, navigation and timing provision, the International Scientific Technical Conference WPLTN-2012 has come to the following conclusions: 2.1. ...

... The JSC History Portal offers access to the JSC History Collection , other JSC history materials, and hundreds of NASA history web pages. ... Johnson Space Center was established in 1961, and from the early Gemini, Apollo and Skylab projects to today's Space Shuttle and International Space Station Programs, the Center continues to lead NASA's efforts in human space exploration. ... JSC Space Shuttle Program . ... This link provides access to the NASA JSC History Portal Document Search page. ...

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): . ...

STScI . ... What is STScI . ... Research . Research Staff Directory . Journal Clubs and Research Groups . ... STScI Webcasts . ... Participant . ... CSC/STScI . ... University of Maryland . ... Jet Propulsion Laboratory . ... Charles University . ... GMV Space Systems . ... Johns Hopkins University . ... NASA Ames Research Center . ... University of Surrey . ... ESA - European Space Operations Centre . ... University of Maryland, Space Systems Lab . ... NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center . ...

... The purpose of the meeting was to review the current status of project development and to discuss working plan for international cooperation on the stage of preparation to the launch. 22 foreign specialists participated in the meeting representing Australia, Canada, China, Finland, Japan, the Netherlands, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and USA. ... To define personal content of proposed working groups and to develop plan of their activity for 2003 year (15 November 2002, chairmen of working groups). ...

... Report from Alan Giltinan, BCO : . 100 hours of astronomy entry . Number of telescopes and binoculars: . ... During the telescope amnesty session, we had a total of 21 persons with 11 telescopes. ... Having spoken to each group for approx 10-15mins, they all went away with a good background on how to operate their telescopes and they were all very pleased and complimentary of the time and expertise given to them by the team at BCO. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... Use of microsatellite technology in aerospace education by the example of BAUMANETS microsatellite project . ... Launch is scheduled for March 2006. ... Over 20 students graduated from BMSTU and found work in leading Russia s and international aerospace companies. ... Meanwhile, modern labor market in aerospace shows increasing requirements towards quality of university education. ...

... 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; . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 29.09.1995 . ... Credit: NASA/ Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) . Explanation: The International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) was launched by a NASA Delta rocket in 1978 to provide a space telescope for ultraviolet astronomy. A collaborative project among NASA, ESA and the British SRC (now PPARC) agencies, IUE's estimated lifetime was 3 to 5 years. ... September 1995 . ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ... Publications with keywords: ultraviolet . ...