EIGHTEENTH CREW . ... EXPEDITION EIGHTEEN (ISS-18) . MAIN TASKS OF THE EXPEDITION: . Launch of two crew members of the ISS-18 expedition and a participant of the space flight of the visiting crew VC-15 (the USA) on board the Soyuz TMA-13 vehicle of mission 17S; . Soyuz TMA-13 docking to the instrument compartment of the Zvezda Service Module (SM IC); . ... Servicing of operations on Space Shuttle (Mission ULF2) docking. ... Servicing of operations on Space Shuttle, Mission 15A, docking. ...

The possibility to have Visitor Instruments at the VLTI has been granted to permit innovative observations by teams using stand-alone instruments, free from a substantial fraction of the requirements for fully automated VLTI general use instruments. In addition, the Visitor Instruments could provide a powerful scientific/technical test bench for new instrumental concepts, eventually to be incorporated later in VLTI facility instruments. ... a thorough technical description of the instrument, . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Gregory Errol Chamitoff (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: In 1995, Dr. Chamitoff joined Mission Operations at the Johnson Space Center, where worked as a Guidance and Control Flight Controller. ... SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Expedition 17/18 - In 2008, Dr. Chamitoff served as the flight engineer and science officer for a 6-month mission aboard the International Space Station during Expeditions 17 and 18. ... OCTOBER 2013 . ...

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... Support the international SKA at the 20% level of an instrument for up to 3 GHz, limited in cost to $1B, and located at the selected site. Complete EVLA and ATA by 2013 Between now and 2013 develop array technology to provide firm cost estimates of an interim SKA Hi array operating to 50 GHz with 4X the area of the VLA. ... International SKA Participation - Support the international SKA at the 20% level of an instrument for up to 2 GHz, limited in cost to $1B, and located at the selected site.. ...

... April, 2010: APOLLO detects lost Soviet reflector . October, 2009: LCROSS event. May, 2009: APO featured on PBS film 400 Years of the Telescope . April 3, 2009: For the International Year of Astronomy , APO is featured in a 20-minute segment during a 100-hour webcast. ARC 3.5m | ... Instrument News: Current Status . Instrument Summary . ... ARCES (Echelle) . ... Current Weather . Weather Status . ... Weather Plots . ... APO Password Access . 3.5m Nightlogs . ...

... 16.05.2006 . ... Credit: STS-114 Crew , NASA Explanation: The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest human-made object ever to orbit the Earth . Last August, the station was visited and resupplied by space shuttle Discovery . ... After departing the ISS , the crew of Discovery captured this spectacular vista of the orbiting space city high above the Caspian Sea . ... Publications with keywords: ISS - space shuttle Discovery . Publications with words: ISS - space shuttle Discovery . ...

... 2006 May 16 . The International Space Station from Above . Credit: STS-114 Crew , NASA . Explanation: The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest human-made object ever to orbit the Earth . Last August, the station was visited and resupplied by space shuttle Discovery . ... After departing the ISS , the crew of Discovery captured this spectacular vista of the orbiting space city high above the Caspian Sea . ... Tomorrow's picture: safe space . ... About APOD | ...

... Simulators . ... Functional Cargo Block (FGB) simulator; . ... Each partner participating in the ISS construction elaborates and develops simulators and trainers of its own segment on a home base; . Training of astronauts on the station segments' operation is carried out on the basis of countries - customers, investigators and researchers; . ... Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact . Copyright 2000-2016 ATLAS Aerospace . ...

... The GHRS has the usual components of an astronomical spectrograph: entrance apertures, a collimator, dispersers, camera mirrors, and detectors. ... The collimator and camera mirrors are unexceptional and need no further description here (see ``The HST Focal Plane and the GHRS Apertures'' on page 73 for details). ... The first two first-order gratings, G140L and G140M, have their spectra imaged by mirror Cam-A onto detector D1, which is optimized for the shortest wavelengths. ...

... Samara State Aerospace University Research Research and education centers Space Instruments Engineering Institute (IKP-214) . ... Developing and producing experimental test sets for modelling space environment factors interaction with spacecraft structural elements. ... Basic technolgy research set for testing equipment and interconnecting systems and small spacecraft carrying breadboard design, dynamic, thermal vacuum testing and testing of electronic equipment for electromagnetic compatibility. ...

A new Advanced Instruments and Engineering Facility will be established on Mt Stromlo, establishing new capability for precision optics manufacture and an expanded research and development program. ... ANU has signed an agreement with commercial aerospace partner Auspace to rebuild the Near-infrared Integral-Field Spectrograph, (NIFS) for the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii. ... This first Australian instrument for the Gemini telescopes is of enormous importance to Australian science and Stromlo staff. ...

Status of the EGSE updating with SCOS 2000 Nicola La Palombara INAF ­ IASF Milano XMM ­ EPIC Operation Meeting Mallorca, 29 March 2011 Status of the EGSE updating with SCOS 2000 Project overview Two on-ground EPIC Flight Spare instruments: 1 MOS camera at the Leicester University (UK) 1 PN camera at the MPE Panter facility of Munich (D) Both instruments are operated through the same Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) which was used for AIV tests before satellite integration. ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

LOFAR in Australia ­ A Brief Engineering Perspective By Dr Peter J Hall, CSIRO SKA/LOFAR Program Leader 6 November, 2002 Background LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) is a proposed radio telescope designed to operate in the approximate frequency range 10 - 250 MHz. ... In both cases, the instruments would be built and operated by international consortia; Australia is a founding member of the 11-participant SKA consortium and may join the USA and Europe in the LOFAR endeavour. ...

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... Boris Zoubkov (on the left) is holding subsurface sounding experiment using MARSES instrument sounding instrument from IKI gained possibility to join expedition to Devon Island in Canada and test instrument to measure frozen subsurface slices. Representative of IKI team Boris Zoubkov has provided unique measures of subsurface polygonith structures at Haughton meteorite crater using MARSES sounding instrument which is planned to be employed in future Mars subsurface sounding missions. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... Ciel Espace, nouvelle formule, c'est . des actualit†йs . des reportages . des interviews, des portraits . ... 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 Atlantis a d†йcoll†й vers la station internationale . ... Elle doit rejoindre la Station spatiale internationale (ISS) pour une mission de 12 jours . ...

... Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam, Aussenstelle Observatorium Niemegk, Germany Magnetic and electric fields and plasma waves are generally thought to play a significant role in various processes. ... The wave instruments included hihgly sensitive sensors for measurements of fluctuations of the plasma flow, current density, electric and magnetic fields, spacecraft potential, density and temperature of the plasma and multi-channell frequency analyzers [Klimov et al., ... Magnetic field measurements . ...

... BAA Out of London Meeting: Saturday 6 September . ... Light Pollution in Ireland: Monday 8 September . The IAA is delighted to announce that the opening lecture of the 2008-09 season will be given by well-known lecturer, broadcaster, author and astronomy expedition leader, the inimitable Dr John Mason. ... The lecture will be at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday 3 September, in Queen's University Belfast. ... Wednesday, 27 August 2008 23:54 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...