... Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Progress M-66 cargo vehicle under the International Space Station program. Designers inspection of the Progress M-66 transport cargo vehicle was completed. ... Orbital module of the Soyuz-U launch vehicle, containing Progress M-66 spacecraft was transported from the spacecraft processing facility for the general integration with LV. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Facilities and equipment . ... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Contacts . ... The scientists of Samara State Aerospace University have completed dynamic tests of the first Russian university nanosatellite SamSat-218D created by SSAU students. ... It has already passed the whole set of tests and transferred to the Rocket and Space Centre Progress . ... The whole test cycle of the nanosatellite SamSat-218D (Module Contact-Nanosatellite") will be completed in July. ...

... Timothy L. Kopra (Colonel, U. S. Army, Ret.) NASA Astronaut . ... In this position, he primarily served as an engineering liaison for space shuttle launch operations and International Space Station hardware testing. ... He then served in the Space Station Branch of the Astronaut Office, where he was involved in the testing of crew interfaces for two space station pressurized modules as well as the implementation of support computers and operational Local Area Network on the station. ...

Contents and Select Excerpts . ... Winter 2009 . ... Complete content for online Mercury is available to ASP members and institutional subscribers . ... Dark Night, Rowena Davis . ... The International Dark-Sky Association is leading the movement to save our starry skies. ... Imaging the Universe Online, Paul Deans . ... Time-Domain Astronomy, John Avant . ... Astronomy in the News . ... Editorial, Paul Deans . ... Night Sky Brightness . ... Sky Sights, Paul Deans . ... Reflections, Paul Deans . ...

... Greenland meteorite expeditions, Greenland 1998 Unix system administration (part-time), Teoretisk Astrophysics Centre, Copenhagen Teaching assistant (part-time), University of Copenhagen Guide, Round Tower Observatory (part-time) hereof 1991-1993 as Head observer, Copenhagen Planetarium guide Technical Museum (part-time), Elsinore 1999- 1989-1999 1996 1995-1996 1991-1996 1984-1997 1984-1985 EDUCATION o o o Master of Science , Astrophysics, University of ...

Welcome to the 10C Survey website! ... The first 10C Survey results from an area of 27 sq. degrees complete to 1 mJy and 12 sq. degrees complete to 0.5 mJy have now been released. ... The first results from the survey, which is the deepest extragalactic radio source survey of any significant extent (> 0.2 sq. degrees) above 1.4 GHz, including the deep 15.7-GHz source count are contained in AMI Consortium: Davies et al. ... For each field, deep and shallow areas have been defined. ...

... After delivery of all engineering models and SRT test sets to LA main ASC activities were moved to LA as well. ... Special attention was paid to the problem of tests on the electromagnetic compatibility between service and scientific on-board payload. ... The SRT was attached to special supporting frame, and LNA cooling system (NSOTR) was installed on the Focal Container. ... FC Focal Container - hermetic package with the scientific payload; it contains receivers, . ... TVT Thermo-Vacuum Tests . ...

... The one year crew. (image credit: NASA/Bill Stafford) . The тАЬOne Year CrewтАЭ has specific objectives to their mission all in a bid to find out if the human body and mind is capable of long missions to an asteroid, back to the Moon or even to Mars in the future. ... On-board the Russian space station Mir four cosmonauts clocked up more than a year in space in the 1980s and 1990s.€а (1942-) has the record for the longest single space flight of 437 days or 14 months in space in 1995. ...

... Space Research Institute . ... Main research and development work completed in 2009 and ready for implementation . ... Development of the Northern Eurasia land cover map based on medium spatial resolution satellite data. ... The research and development has been completed of the first in Russia and in the whole world high-speed digital streams decoder for space and satellite channels with extremely high noise levels. ... Main research and development work completed in 2008 and ready for...

... After hearing and discussing Rocket-Space Corporation Energy General Designer U.P.Semevov's report on the fulfilling the flight program of the orbital complex Mir and proposals on its further exploitation, the Council draws attention to: . ... According to the Russian Government Resolution No. 76 of January 21, 1999 a large amount of work to find and attract Russian and foreign investments to provide the further exploitation of the orbital station Mir was carried out. ...

This is the homepage of Andrew Fruchter, an astronomer on the staff of the Space Telescope Science Institute . ... Here you can look at an HST images of the optical counterparts of gamma-ray bursts and their host galaxies. ... Therefore, substantial information on the fine scale structure of objects can be obtained by offsetting the pointing of the telescope between exposures and then combining these "dithered" exposures into a single image. ...

This service contributes to the International Service of Geomagnetic Indices (ISGI) of the IAGA . ... The Kp numbers of the previous month are available in tabular format . ... There are available also historical and current Kp and derived indices per anonoymos FTP (see below). ... U.S.A. FTP server: ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/GEOMAGNETIC_DATA/INDICES/KP_AP/ . monthly update) . ... contains the monthly Kp / ap tables in a simple text format readable for both humans and computers (*.tab). ...

... Dongwon Kim , March 2014, on-going . ... Tammy Roderick , March 2011, on-going . Emma Kirby, *PhD completed August 2010* . ... Laura Dunn, *PhD completed December 2007* . ... David Nicholls, *PhD completed March 2014* . ... Antoine Bouchard, *PhD completed June 2006* . Emily McNeil, *PhD completed December 2010* . ... Eduard Westra, *PhD completed December 2007* . Sebastian Gurovich, *PhD completed August 2006* . Rami Rekola, *PhD completed December 2004* . ...

... Credit Copyright: STS-133 Shuttle Crew , NASA Explanation: The developing International Space Station (ISS) has changed its appearance again. ... The ISS and many of its modules and expansive solar panels are visible in the above picture taken by the Discovery Crew after leaving the ISS to return to Earth. ... Publications with keywords: international space station - ISS - space shuttle Discovery . Publications with words: international space station - ISS - space shuttle Discovery . ...

... Events . ... Contact Us . ... Astronomy Summer Programme . ... Summer Events at Blackrock Castle . Reminder of Dr Carolyn Porco's lecture tour in Ireland : . Carolyn's lectures were completely booked up in Dunsink and BCO and the feedback from her talk is fantastic! ... For tickets contact Neil . Tuesday, 7 July 2009 11:40 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... 2009 April 6 . International Space Station Expands Again . Credit: STS-119 Shuttle Crew , NASA . Explanation: The developing International Space Station (ISS) has changed its appearance again. In a recently completed mission, the Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery visited the ISS and added components that included a new truss and new solar panels. ... Construction began on the ISS in 1998. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

The Future of the Leap Second Dennis D. McCarthy U. S. Naval Observatory Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) · Begun in 1960 as cooperative effort of U.S. Naval Observatory and Royal Greenwich Observatory to make coordinated changes to clocks · Epoch and frequency adjusted to match UT1 corrected for seasonal variations (UT2) · Details of UTC system were formalized by International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR) of ...

... 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.. ...

New images are being released to celebrate the International Year of Light 2015. ... M51: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; UV: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Optical: NASA/STScI; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech; SNR0519-69.0: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Rutgers/J.Hughes; Optical: NASA/STScI; MSH 11-62: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/P.Slane et al; Optical: DSS; Radio: CSIRO/ATNF/ATCA; Cygnus A: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI; Radio: NSF/NRAO/AUI/VLA; RCW 86: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/D.Castro et al, Optical: NOAO/AURA/NSF/CTIO ...

... Day-by-day lines contain complete set and intended for those who have been there (I mean, in Kyoto :) . ... Large format is mainly for 1600x1200 screens and fast link (pictures are up to 150K in size). Normal is for typical 1024x768 screen (i.e. 15" monitors). ... Photos look incredible on it. ... Large . ... Normal . ... Thumbnails . ... Contents with thumbnails: Large | ... Nara, one of the historical cities of Japan . ... August 17, Sunday. ... Nara. ... return to photo album contents | ...