... Spacecraft . ... To space by cannon? Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ...

Подписка на рассылку обзоров astro-ph на Subscribe.Ru . ... Предыдущий выпуск (N335) . ... Обсудить на форуме Scientific.RU . ... Подписка на рассылку обзоров на Subscribe.Ru . Обзоры препринтов astro-ph . ... Собственно обзоры препринтов. ... Ранее обзоры также были на Астронете и на Scientific.Ru . ... АНКи доступны на Астронете , а с 2006 по 2008 г. также на сайте Элементы.Ру . ... Ранее они также размещались на сайте Астронет и в архиве моих обозрений (кодировка KOI8) на сайте Scientific.Ru . ...

... What work is currently being done to improve the flux calibration accuracy for echelle modes? ... Starting early in Cycle 11, monthly offsetting for echelle modes was turned off to minimize these types of calibration problems. ... We are currently working on redetermining the echelle flux calibration so that it is self-consistent with the 2-D scattered light algorithm. Time dependence of the sensitivity - Sensitivity-monitor data for the echelle modes are currently under investigation. ...

Orbital data : INTERBALL AZ GSE and GSM cartesian coordinates, GSE cartesian velocity (once per 10 minutes). ... Magnetic field data from IMAP experiment. Magnetic fileld absolute value and magnetic field index (the difference between absolute value and model value), status flag. ... Counts of H+ and O+ ions are accumulated during one spin period by detectors D6 (antisunward looking), D8 (spin plane), D10 (sunward looking) of TRICS2 subsystem (1.0-30 keV). ... TRICS1, TRICS2, TRICS3 subsystems: . ...

Next: Future plans Up: Electronic database Previous: Electronic database . The JPDOC gives access to references to the papers, data files and links to the internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to the radio domain. ... The database also provides links to internet collections of optical data files and personal WWW pages with relevant software and includes some other useful information. ...

... Users . ... Data Collection and Analysis . ... This particular part of the analysis has been disabled since the code is struggling to cope with the number of users seen this year, in particular the large contingent of people who have re-tweeted NASA. ... Order accounts: by user number (effectively random) by number of tweets (includes retweets) by number of followers by number of followers that also tweeted about AAS225 by number of friends that also tweeted about AAS225 . ... by user number . ...

CIMA is more than just the observing tool - in fact, the observing tool is just a part of a bigger package called the CIMA software package. ... There is also a another package called the CIMA WAPP software which contains the WAPP software, the special Tcl/Tk interpreter used by CIMA and support libraries. ... All CIMA software components recognize the following general options that are part of the CIMA version selection system: . ... The select_cima script can be used to set up a default version. ...

... Check a package against all these points before delivering it. files should be -rw-r--r-- or -r--r--r-- . ... should contain only the files ChangeLog DEPEND Makefile VERSION DISTRIBUTION . ... ChangeLog should contain a list of open SPRs including their number. ... If the package contains a task, DEPEND must contain taskmain. For each library in USEDLIBS statements in all Makefiles in the package, the corresponding package should be listed in DEPEND . ... Makefile should contain TEXDOCS=task . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2013 April 30 . Humanity Explores the Solar System . ... Explanation: What spacecraft is humanity currently using to explore our Solar System ? ... Given the present armada , our current epoch might become known as the time when humanity first probed its own star system . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... ROBERT J. CENKER . ... This has included launch vehicle evaluation and systems engineering support for Motorola on Iridium; avionics architecture, generation of performance specification, and generation of performance map for small expendable launch vehicle; and constellation configuration and launch vehicle performance definition for proprietary smallsat communications system. Last two years with RCA were spent as Manager of Payload Accommodations on EOS Platform. ...

... Home . ... Main . ... The pulsar group is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility , a division of the CSIRO . The ATNF operates the Parkes radio telescope where the majority of our observations are carried out. ... The ATNF Pulsar Educational Page gives a broad overview of pulsar properties, observations and current research projects. ... Our group developed the web-based ATNF Pulsar Catalogue , which provides comprehensive information on all published pulsars. ... Pulsar Catalogue . ...

Text can be included in the shell script by using a here document, a special form of input redirection. The << symbol is used to indicate that text should be read up to a given mark. For example: #!/bin/sh # this script outputs the given text before it runs cat << EOF This shellscript is currently under development, please report any problems to Danny (danny@cornflake.ed) EOF exec /usr/local/test/bin/test_version . ...

... A subset of the Observatory's research activity, namely the list of 41 refereed journal publications during 2004 and one book, is given in Appendix C . ... The remainder of this section first summarises a few highlights of the Observatory's research and other activities during 2004, and then, under the headings of the Observatory's senior research staff, presents lay reports of some of the principal research and related activities undertaken by these staff and their colleagues during 2004. ...

... Up: Data Analysis Applications . ... Our main goals are: 1) to take advantage of the full capabilities of the AXAF, we intend to provide a more sophisticated modeling capability (i.e., models that are f ( x , y , E , t ), models to simulate the response of AXAF instruments, and models that enable ``joint-mode'' fitting, i.e., combined spatial-spectral or spectral-temporal fitting); and 2) to provide users with a wide variety of models, optimization methods, and fit statistics. ... Multiple data sets...

... NICS will be the only infrared instrument for the first light of the TNG; as a consequence, we decided to incorporate a sufficient degree of operation flexibility by providing the instrument with six different observing modes, three aimed at imaging and three at spectroscopy: . ... It will be possible to use the narrow band filters as order sorters; this will allow to perform high resolution long-slit spectroscopy in the wavelength ranges covered by the available narrow band filters. ...

... A leading research scientist with over 10 years experience in applied mathematics and theoretical physics. Author of a major book on geometry and physics and over 50 papers on subjects including quantum theory, gravitation, and computational geometry. ... Currently an EPSRC Advanced Fellow and Director of Studies for Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. ... 2000 ? ... Junior Research Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge . ... Joint organiser of the Cambridge-MIT collaboration on quantum computing . ...

The Status window shows the status of the telescope and (on unix and Windows) contains TUI's menus. ... The top panel shows user-specified information about the current target and also the progress of slews: . Name : object name . Obj Pos1/2 (e.g. RA/Dec): net object position. including object and arc offsets. ... Object Arc Off: the current object arc offset . Object Arc Off X,Y: the current object arc offset rotated to instrument xy coordinates (this may vary if the field rotates). ...

The current Java Class Library for access to FITS files was designed for the VLT Data Flow System pipeline subsystem. ... all types of headers are decoded, . ... As the code has not been optimized, data access is slow e.g. on a 160 MHz machine and no JIT, 32-bit real images are read at 50k values/sec, 16-bit integer images at 80k values/sec while table data are read at 10k values/sec. FITS keywords are decoded at a rate of 2-3k keywords/sec depending significantly on their types. ...

... Activities | ... Collaborations | ... The main objective of laboratory #235 is development of imaging array detectors for different applications (including radio-astronomy, safety and security systems). We develop ultra-sensitive detectors (bolometers) and detector arrays, planar antennas and tuning circuits, refractive and reflective quasi-optical systems focusing millimeter and sub-millimeter wave irradiation on the detectors. ...

... Why is the belt of Orion surrounded by a bubble? ... Progenitor hypotheses include the winds from bright Orion stars and the supernovas of stars long gone. ... This striking but unfamiliar looking picture of the familiar Orion region of the sky was produced using survey data from the now-defunct InfraRed Astronomical Satellite (IRAS). ... After parting with the Sun late last week, April's moon graced the early evening sky. ... During a solar eclipse, the Sun, Moon and Earth are aligned. ...