... At 14 hours 58 minutes 8 seconds Moscow Time the Soyuz-U/Progress M1-11 Rocket-Space Complex was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome under the International Space Station (ISS) Mission Program and the Russian Side's commitments under the ISS Project. ... Orbital module of the Soyuz-U launch vehicle, containing Progress M1-11 spacecraft was transported from the spacecraft processing facility for the general integration with LV. ... The Russian Soyuz TMA-3 manned transport spacecraft was launched. ...

You can also see this page in Russian with using KOI8 (X Windows) or CP1251 (MS Windows) Cyrillic coding. The Laboratory supports the space TV experiments, mainly in the planetary exploration missions. ... Image Co-registration . ... PHOBOS mission - Martian satellites investigations. Phobos on the Martian limb, the image from Phobos-2 probe from 02/28/89. ... Russian Space Bulletin. ... Last modified at June,26 1997 Alexey Kuzmin: akuzmin@mx.iki.rssi.ru . Back to IKI home page ...

... 314, 2004 F. Ochsenbein, M. Al len, and D. Egret, eds. The NOAO Pip eline Data Manager R. Hiriart, F. Valdes, F. Pierfederici, C. Smith and M. Miller National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ 85719 Abstract. The Data Manager for NOAO Pipeline system is a set of interrelated components that are being developed to fulfill the pipeline system data needs. ... The Data Manager is a subsystem of the NOAO Pipeline that provides several data management services to the system. ...

... News . ... International relations . ... Events IX International forum "Optical systems and technologies" . ... 2nd Thematic Scientific Conference - "New developments of optoelectronic and laser systems for aircraft ." ... Optical and opto -electronic devices and systems : methods of designing, manufacturing , testing, research and certification . Computer simulation of optical and opto -electronic systems . ... Computer modeling and design technology of optical and opto -electronic systems ." ...

Open Systems Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... This book is designed to provide interested individuals and organizations with an overview of open systems and the work being done to achieve them. ... This section is organized using a descriptive model of an open systems environment developed by the IEEE PI 003.0 Working Group, which is developing the Guide to POSIX-based Open System Architecture. ... Standards for open systems 13 . Chapter 3: The open systems environment (OSE) 15 . ...

Optical/IR infrastructure priority setting process The Town Hall community meeting agreed that the "base" component of Gemini (i.e. the current 6.19% + Aspen program) is the community's highest priority, and that it should be wholly funded under NCRIS (i.e. without the LIEF or university contributions of the present arrangement). ... Infrastructure funded through NCRIS should serve the research and innovation system broadly, not just the host/funded institutions. ...

... The conference will hold at the Poncelet Laboratory . ... The nearest metro station: Smolenskaya (metro line 3, dark blue), 5 minutes by walk . ... The nearest metro station: Pervomayskaya (metro line 3, dark blue), 5 minutes by walk . This is the direct metro connection to "Smolenskaya", the door-to-door way is around half an hour. ... Metro is the fastest transport in Moscow (here is the metro plan ). ... There are a lot of exchange offices where you can exchange euro to rubles. ...

Jam es W ebb Space Telescope Town Hall Eric P. Smith JWST Program Scientist NASA Headquarters 2008 Progress General ­ JWST has successfully completed its Non-Advocate Review and Confirmation Review processes and has been approved to begin the Implementation Phase ­ All observatory components, except for the spacecraft and membrane management system of the sunshield, have successfully completed their preliminary design reviews ­ All ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . International Space Station . ... Among them: first time a partnership of nations owns and operates a space station , first time access to previously secret facilities, first time linkages between training and control centers, the first time orchestrating of multiple spacecraft traffic, the first -of-its-kind commercial ventures, including space tourism, the first time deployment of very large solar arrays, first ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Swedish Space Corporation s (SSC) PRISMA and French Space Agency s (CNES) PICARD satellites have been delivered to the Yasny launch base. ... Concurrently with the preparation of the launch from the Yasny launch base, ISC Kosmotras carries out TanDEM-X launch campaign at Baikonur cosmodrome. ... Dnepr LV . ...

... The Quality Assurance rules applicable to DFS commissioning : . The DFS commissioning process is a whole of activities marked out by 5 milestones, all mandatory : . the Commissioning Kick-off. the Integration Kick-off. the Integration Acceptance. the Installation Kick-off. and the Commissioning Acceptance. Then, at the level of every DFS components updated for the commissioning, there is another sub-process to perform . ... Template for defining a Commissioning Plan : to be defined. ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... Space camp . ... mastering the theoretical principles of astronautics; . studying the main components of a manned space complex - transporting spacecrafts (of the types "Soyuz", "Shuttle", ASS (Aviation Space System), etc.), orbital complexes (of the ISS (International Space Station) type), launching complex, Flight Control Center (FCC), search and rescue complex; . ... acquiring theoretical knowledge and initial practical skills of work in spacesuits; . ...

... at the ISSP RAS. ... MSU student Kostretsova N.B. successfully defended her thesis entitled "Investigation of Thermal and Chemial Expansivity of Ceria-Based Solid Solutions". ... V.A. Kolotygin successfully defended his PhD thesis "Perovskite-Like Oxide and Composite Anode Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Functional Properties and Electrochemical Behavior in Contact with Gallate- and Silicate-Based Solid Electrolytes" and was awarded PhD degree in the area of Materials Science and Engineering ....

... The spacecraft of Magion type have been selected as the subsatellites of the Interball project: Magion-4 (C2-X) for the Tail Probe and Magion-5 (C2-A) for the Auroral Probe. ... Magion-4 was produced in the Czech Republic in collaboratrion with Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Austria and has onboard scientific instruments and sensors designed and built in Czech Republic, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovak Republic. ... Plasma flow detector VDP-S (Czech Republic, Russia) . ...

... 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 . ...

... Archives . ... The PCA and ICA is used for separating mixed components with some assumptions. ... The need of source separation methods in astronomy has led various adaptations of decomposition methods available. ... I rarely come up with a paper which gathered and summarized component separation methods applicable to astronomical data. In that regards, the following paper seems useful to overview methods of reducing dimensionality for astronomers. [arxiv:0805.0269] . ... Chandra Blog . ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

... The Story of the Christmas Star continues in Northern Ireland: on Friday 11 December 2009, at the Windmill Integrated Primary School in Dungannon. During the UNAWE Astro-Art Fun workshops, held by Miruna Popescu from Armagh Observatory, the children have listened to the story and then made their own interpretation of the story on the individually designed Christmas cards and creative paintings. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Credit Copyright: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team ; MPS /UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA Explanation: Why does this comet's nucleus have two components? The surprising discovery that Comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko has a double nucleus came late last week as ESA 's robotic interplanetary spacecraft Rosetta continued its approach toward the ancient comet's core. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Comet 67P from Spacecraft Rosetta . ...

... 2014 July 21 . Spacecraft Rosetta Shows Comet has Two Components . Image Credit: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team ; MPS /UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA . Explanation: Why does this comet's nucleus have two components? The surprising discovery that Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has a double nucleus came late last week as ESA 's robotic interplanetary spacecraft Rosetta continued its approach toward the ancient comet's core. ... About APOD | ...