... 29a. Satellite looking up . 29c. Satellites probing around . ... The US Air Force furthermore sponsors polar satellites of the DMSP series, scanning the cloud cover of the polar region and also studying ions and electrons of the magnetosphere. ... The Canadian satellite Alouette in 1962 bounced radio signals off the top of the ionosphere, and UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) has studied the Earth atmosphere. ... Next Satellite Class: #29c Those observing local conditions . ...

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... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Aurora . ... Corona . Fireballs . ... Zodiacal Light . ... The first thing to do is get acquainted with what the night sky looks like. ... The National Schools Observatory web site has very good horizon views of the sky for the current night. ... If the object is moving slowly across the sky then it may be one of the larger satellites. ... Cloudbait Observatory - October 2002 . ... October 2003 Aurora at Armagh . ...

These include satellites which monitor the weather, such as the GOES series (one of which is shown on the right) of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). ... To this class also belong "spy satellites" which observe the ground from low circular orbits. ... The Canadian satellite Alouette in 1962 bounced radio signals off the top of the ionosphere, and UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) is currently studying the Earth atmosphere. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . NASA Mission to MAP the Universe . ... 15.04.1996 . ... Astronomers have computed what bumps would be expected from several models of our universe, and comparing these results to MAP's data may yield a new understanding of the composition and structure of our universe . MAP has just won approval as a NASA MIDEX class satellite, and is currently scheduled to launch in the year 2000. Information: The Scale of the Universe Debate in April 1996 . ... April 1996 . ...

... Peter J.K. "Jeff" Wisoff (Ph.D) . NASA Astronaut (former) . ... A veteran of four space flights, STS-57 in 1993, STS-68 in 1994, STS-81 in 1997 and STS-92 in 2000, Dr. Wisoff has logged a total of 42 days, 56 hours, 1 minute and 48 seconds in space, including , 19 hours and 53 minutes of EVA time in three space walks. ... Following 183 orbits of the Earth in 269 hours and 46 minutes, the eleven-day mission ended with Space Shuttle Endeavour landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California. ...

Disastrous earthquakes happen 100 to 200 times a year. ... There is a chance that the data of ionospheric plasma observations hold an answer to the latter question. Satellites and ground-based facilities may detect earthquake precursors in the ionosphere a few hours or days before the main shock. ... ULF "Hz"-oscillations have been recorded several hours before the main shock in a narrow magnetic field tube (40...100 km along the satellite trajectory) conjugated with epicenter of the earthquake. ...

... 2004 March 3 . Opportunity Rover Indicates Ancient Mars Was Wet . Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , JPL , NASA . ... To help answer this question, NASA launched two rover missions to the red planet and landed them in regions that satellite images indicated might have been covered with water. Yesterday, mounting evidence was released indicating that the Mars Opportunity rover had indeed uncovered indications that its landing site, Meridiani Planum , was once quite wet. ...

... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . ... The launch vehicle is steam ejected from its Transport and Launch Canister (TLC) by means of hot gases of black powder gas generator. ... Activation of black powder gas generator . ... Separation of black powder gas generator . ... Dnepr LV Performance . ...

Because of your knowledge of physics and interest in the environment, you have gotten a summer job with an organisation which wants to orbit a satellite to monitor the amount of chlorine ions in the upper atmosphere over Australia. It has been determined that the satellite should collect samples at a height of 100 km above the Earth's surface. Unfortunately, at that height air resistance would make the amount of time the satellite would stay in orbit too short to be useful. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... It is from from Voyager 1 and shows a whopping big impact crater dominating the profile of the moon. Note that Mimas is about 400 kilometers across (about 250 miles). ... The wall around the crater is 5 kilometers high, and that central peak rises 6 kilometers above the surface (many impact craters have a large central peak which is caused by a pressure rebound from the impact). ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Flights Chronology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... November 26, 2001 at 21:24:12 Moscow time the Progress M1-7 transport cargo vehicle with Colibri microsatellite (MS) accommodated in the payload compartment was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome to the near-earth orbit in compliance with the International Space Station (ISS) flight program. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Question:What do you need to protect an expensive state-of-the-art robotic vehicle that is far from human reach and about to crash at high speed on a rocky alien surface?Answer:Retrograde rockets, parachutes, airbags, and an aeroshell.These are found in the makeup of a lander module that was used to bring rovers Spirit and Opportunity described by the missionтАЩs director as тАЬrobotic field geologistsтАЭ safely to the Martian surface in 2004. ...

The First International Symposium on Space Education "UNIVERSAT-2006" was held in Moscow on June 26-30, 2006. ... The scientific program of UNIVERSAT-2006 covered a wide area of topics centered around the theme "Space Education and University Satellites". ... Space Researches in University Education - Heliobiology, Ecology, Atmosphere Sciences, Remote Sensing. ... Basic Space Sciences in High-School and Cooperation in Space Education Projects. ... They have presented over 70 oral and poster reports. ...

... HST . Potential proposers for the GHRS may be interested in answers to some of the . ... HST Overview . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . ... DD Time . ... ISRs Potential proposers for the GHRS may be interested in answers to some of the questions we have received: 1. ... If an object is observed in Dark Time, the relative quietness of the sky and the small size of the SSA mean that geocoronal Ly-a is coming through at a rate of only 0.02 to 0.03 counts per second, most of which is falling on one diode. ...

... Courtesy of NASA's National Space Science Data Center . Originally designated the Pluto Fast Flyby (PFF), the Pluto Express mission is planned to be a two-spacecraft mission designed to make studies of the planet Pluto and its satellite Charon. Its major science objectives are to: (1) characterize the global geology and geomorphology of Pluto and Charon; (2) map the composition of Pluto's surface; and, (3) determine the composition and structure of Pluto's atmosphere. ...

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... solar system . ... NASA launches satellite to study how Sunт??s atmosphere is energized . ... NASA s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft launched June 26 at 10:27 p.m. EDT from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. ... IRIS is a NASA Explorer Mission to observe how solar material moves, gathers energy, and heats up as it travels through a little-understood region in the Sun s lower atmosphere. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... The software systems are described following the forward and backward data flow to/from the satellite: starting from the Observation Proposal reception and archiving, the long term observation scheduling up to the detailed weekly planning and telecommands sequence uplinking, and vice versa the scientific and housekeeping raw telemetry acquisition and archiving, quick look data analysis, data reformatting and distribution as a Final Observation Tape to the Observation Proposal PI. ...

home publications > mercury . ... A Titan-ic Mission . ... Saturn's moon Titan seems like the stuff of science fiction, but it really exists, out there in the distant reaches of our own Solar System. ... Ringed Saturn, heavily veiled by the thick atmosphere of this small world, hangs low and huge in the sky. ... But under that heavy atmosphere, planetary scientists believe an exotic world awaits our discovery [see "Saturn and Titan on the Eve of Cassini-Huygens," September/October, p. 10]. ...