... In accordance with the International Space Station (ISS) Mission Program and the Russian commitments under this International Project, the Soyuz TMA-17 manned transport spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 00:52:00 Moscow Time. The Soyuz TMA-17 crew: Oleg Kotov (Soyuz Commander, Russia), Timothy J. Creamer (Flight Engineer, USA) and Soichi Noguchi (Flight Engineer, Japan) . The objective of the launch is to deliver the Expedition 22/23 crew (ISS-22/23) to the ISS. ...

... 2001 December 17 . Leaving the International Space Station . Credit: Rosaviakosmos , CNES , NASA . ... The lifeboat was actually the new Soyuz capsule they arrived in -- they returned home in an older Soyuz capsule that had been left six months ago. ... Pictured above on October 31 , their Soyuz spacecraft undocks from the ISS while dark space and a blue Earth hover in the background . Tomorrow's picture: Nebula in Pink and Blue . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Steven L. Smith . NASA International Space Station Program Liaison to the European Space Agency . ... SPECIAL HONORS: NASA Distinguished Service Medals (two), NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, NASA Space Flight Medal, NASA Exceptional Service Medal, IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and IBM Outstanding Community Service Award. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Smith is a veteran of four space flights covering 16 million miles and seven space walks totaling 49 hours and 25 minutes. ... DECEMBER 2013 ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... Astronomy Festival: 12/13 February 2010, Galway . ... Astronomy Ireland's Christmas talk: Mon 14 Dec, TCD, Dublin . ... ESO and the E ELT* . The talk will take place on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 9:30 am in room HG19 of the DCU School of Nursing . ... He directed the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy and Leiden Observatory, and served on oversight committees for AURA, ESA, ESO and NASA. ... Tuesday, 8 December 2009 20:12 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos, 1996, vol. ... 627-646. 1-D Maps, Chaos and Neural Networks For Information Processing . ... Revised December 28, 1995 and October 3, 1995. ... An application of complex dynamics and chaos in neural networks to information processing is studied. ... In contrast to other methods of using neural networks and associative memory to store information, the information is stored in dynamical attractors such as limit cycles, rather than equilibrium points. ...

... MAO main . ... Submit a paper to the International Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Hazard Mitigation . ... Тема: Submit a paper to the International Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Hazard Mitigation (IREHM) . ... A new journal entitled as: . International Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Hazard Mitigation . ... Greeting from the International Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Hazard Mitigation (IREHM), which is a peer-reviewed journal. ... MAO NASU . ...

... SSAU History . ... The Ground Control Complex for Small Spacecraft of Samara State Aerospace University took control of the satellites Aist-1 . ... The data received from SSAU scientific equipment on board of the satellites Aist-1 was processed by the engineers of the Rocket and Space Centre and then was transferred to the university scientists. ... On April 19, 2013 the first small spacecraft Aist-1 was launched from the space-launch complex Baykonur together with a research satellite Bion-M No. ...

... 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 . ...

Regions designation | Regions models | ASCII files description . The real time visibility of the IB_TAIL relative to the Evpatoria and Panska Ves . ... The real time regions passing . ... The IB_TAIL geocentric distance as a function of the Moscow time (MT = UT + 3h) (Plot) . Geomagnetic local time in the IB_TAIL position as a function of the MT (Plot) . The IB_TAIL orbital data ASCII files . Updated 19 October, 1999 . ... INTERBALL mission  ...

... 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). ...

... ESA/NASA Solar Probe . Courtesy of NASA's National Space Science Data Center . SOHO - The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory . ... Twelve instruments comprise the payload, producing a continuous stream of data at 40 kbs, except when the solar oscillations imager Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) is operated in high-bit-rate mode, producing 160 kbs. ... Magnetic tape stores data between telemetry contacts with the Experiment Operations Facility, located at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. ...

... Research Innovation . ... University history . ... V.љN. Karazin . ... Karazin university . ... up until December 31, 2012 . Bilateral competition of fundamental research . Fundamental Research State Foundation (FRSF) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) announce a bilateral competition of fundamental research. The competition coverts the following areas of research: . ... July, 2016 . ... up until April 2016 . ... April 18-23, 2016 . ... Phone: +380 (57) 7051248 . ...

... International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space . ... Missions . ... Future Missions and . ... Commentator: Erhard Rabenau read . ... Multi-Objective Scheduling for NASA's Future Deep Space Network Array by Mark D. Johnston read . ... Planning and Scheduling External Occulter Space Missions by Ian E. Jordan read . ... Flexplan: An Operational Mission Planning and Scheduling COTS used Internationally by J.A. Tejo, M. Pereda, Iker Veiga, J.P. Chamoun, G. Garcia, and T. Beech read Copyright...

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. ...

The major recent event on the SKA calendar was the international meeting held in Groningen, The Netherlands. Prior to the meeting the International Engineering and Management Team (IEMT) had initiated and managed a process, which led to seven SKA concept descriptions being publicized shortly before the meeting. ... The Australian SKA Consortium submitted two full descriptions, one based on Luneburg lenses and one using cylindrical reflectors. ... No single concept meets all science goals; . ...

Physics at the Terascale , December 3-5, 2007 . 2007 IEEE Nuclear Symposium , October 27 - November 3, 2007 . ALCPG Workshop 2007 , October 22-26, 2007 . Second International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders , October 1-10, 2007 . ILC Interaction Region Engineering Design Workshop , September 17-21, 2007 . ... Review of US Program for Detector R for the International Linear Collider (ILC) by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation , June 19-20, 2007 . ...

... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... On Christmas day the crew of Apollo 8 had a surprise when they opened their food containers and found a meal of real turkey and stuffing and three miniature bottles of brandy alongside presents from their wives. ... This venture placed the third and final crew onto the Skylab space station . ... Spending Christmas in space continues today with astronauts and cosmonauts having this holiday period onboard the International Space Station (ISS). ...

August 26, 2006, . ... The 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad to be held in Vladivostok and Ussurijsk (Far East of Russian Federation). Preliminary dates for the 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad are December 4-11 (a couple weeks later than the 11 th IAO in Bombay ). ... For the teams which ask for Russian visa - together with the personal data for visas (or before). E-mails for sending the applications . ... The Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad 2006 - last information . ...

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 . ...