OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... The Primary Expedition 7 crew International Space Station (ISS) - Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko (ISS-7 commander, Soyuz TMA-2 commander), American astronaut Edward Lu (ISS-7 flight engineer, Soyuz TMA-2 flight engineer-1) - and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, Visiting Expedition 5 (VE-5) flight engineer, Soyuz TMA-2 flight engineer-2 Pedro Duquer of Spain have returned to Earth in the Descent Module (DM) of the Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Frank Borman . ... A romance with airplanes that began when he was 15 years old, took Frank Borman to the Air Force and then to NASA. ... Frank Borman retired from the air Force in 1970, but is well remembered as a part of this nation's history, a pioneer in the exploration of space and a veteran of both the Gemini 7, 1965 Space Orbital Rendezvous with Gemini 6 and the first manned lunar orbital mission, Apollo 8, in 1968. ...

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): . ...

Hubble Space Telescope Program Goddard Space Flight Center HST /GSFC Project Report Presentation to: STUC Mansoor Ahmed Associate Director, Astrophysics Projects Division Jennifer Wiseman HST Senior Project Scientist Kenneth G. Carpenter HST Operations Project Scientist Patrick Crouse HST Operations Project Manager James Jeletic HST Operations Deputy Project Manager Kevin Hartnett HST ... 5 Hubble Space Telescope Program Steamy Waterworld? ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Concept Spacecraft . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... October . ... By admin September 30, 2011 Posted in: Human Exploration . Gemini Spacecraft: The red and gold spheres in the Equipment Module are propellant tanks and the red cylinder in the nose is the parachute pack. ... Image credit: NASA) . ... Amazingly in 2011, an outfit called Space Operations Inc proposed launching updated Geminis (rebadged as Eclipse spacecraft) for commercial clients! ...

... 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; . ...

ATNF ATUC MEMORANDUM To: ATUC From: Tasso Tzioumis Date: 25 November 2005 Subject: VLBI report - LBA Operations & eVLBI 1) Operations In the past 6 months there was only 1 VLBI session, 1-6 November 2005. ... The next VLBI observing session is scheduled for 9-17 March 2006. ... Correlation will be done on the Swinburne software correlator. ... 2) VLBI tests a) Real-time fringe testing Real-time fringe testing using the disk systems has now been implemented at all antennas. ...

Next: Command Overview Up: Table File System Previous: Interactive Editing of . In this section we describe several of the mathematical operations that can be performed on table data. ... A set of histogram-related commands, with qualifier HISTOGRAM , allow the graphic display of the histogram of a column ( PLOT and OVERPLOT commands), the printout of histogram values ( READ and PRINT commands), or the generation of a 1D image with the histogram of a column (command COMPUTE/HISTOGRAM ). ...

... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

... 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) . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Job Vacancies: Director for Science and Operations Staff Astronomer (VLTI) . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... Science Staff . ... Staff vacancies for the senior position of Director for Science, based in Garching, and for an operations astronomer at Paranal to support VLTI have been opened. ...

... 2009 June 29 . Kaguya Spacecraft Crashes into the Moon . Credit Copyright : SELENE Team , JAXA , NHK . Explanation: Japan's Kaguya spacecraft crashed into the Moon last week, as planned. Officially named the Selenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE) , the spacecraft was given the nickname Kaguya after the princess in the Japanese folklore story The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter . Pictured above is a movie taken by Kaguya during the last orbit of its twenty-month lunar mission. ...

Status of EPICs science operations Bruno Altieri EPIC CAL/OPS meeting VilSpa, June 2-4, 2002 XMM-Newton Bruno Altieri, ESA/RSSD 1 Review of actions · EPIC_7/6: M.Turner to nominate one point of contact per instrument (i.e. one for MOS and one for pn) for the on-board s/w updates ­ Formal mechanism to handle s/w updates to be settled at upcoming management meeting at ESTEC (April 2002) EPIC_8/1: To propose a work around solution for the EMDH limitation of 50 flagged bad pixels per CCD. ...

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. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... The success of PICARD launch re enforces our high level of appreciation of the quality of the DNEPR launcher and of the professionalism and efficiency of ISC Kosmotras. ... The distinguishing feature of the THEOS launch by a converted SS-18 ICBM (Dnepr LV) is that it was the first ISC Kosmotras mission from the Yasny launch site that headed southward to its Sun-synchronous target orbit. ...

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... QPOE event times are typically expressed in units of an on-board spacecraft clock. ... The conversion is automatically performed as part of the timing corrections in 8.7.2. The stand-alone task scc_to_utc allows conversion of an arbitrary spacecraft time to UTC. input files: xtimingdata$scc_to_utc.tab ti> scc_to_utc tbl_fname = xtimingdata$scc_to_utc.tab # ROSAT # conversion table input spacecraft clock time (1606720.) ...

... SITE SAFETY PLAN . ... Prepared by: Ben Harris, Site Safety Officer . ... INTRODUCTION . SECTION I . APO SAFETY POLICY . ... RESPONSIBILITIES . ... 2.2 Site Safety Officer . ... REPORTING SAFETY CONCERNS . ... 4.3 General Requirements . 4.4 General Responsibilities . ... Figure 1 - Notice of Incident-State of New Mexico . ... 5.3 National Fire Protection Association Codes (NFPA) . ... 6.1 Background . ... OFFICE SAFETY . ... Figure 9 - Back Safety Tips . ... PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT . ...

Space Station Mir Over Earth . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , Russian Space Research Institute Explanation: This picture of the Russian space station Mir over the Pacific Ocean was recorded by the Space Shuttle Discovery in February 1995. ... Many scientific experiments and astronomical observations were completed jointly by the American astronauts and the Russian cosmonauts. ... Some cosmonauts have spent more than a year on board Mir, the longest anyone has ever lived in space. ...

... In accordance with the de-orbit plan the OC "Mir" is in a waiting mode continuing its deceleration in Earth atmosphere. During the previous day the OC "Mir" onboard systems were subject to a routine check out, the current trajectory parametres were registered. The processed information confirms the MCC readiness for the final stage dynamis operations with the OC "Mir". ... The first corrective impuls ( the cargo ship "Progress M1-5" 8 control engines are fired): . T burn start - 03.32; . ...