Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter . NASA Mars Orbiter . ... The Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter is the companion spacecraft to the Mars Surveyor '98 Lander. ... The orbiter has as its primary science objectives to: 1) monitor the daily weather and atmospheric conditions; 2) record changes on the martian surface due to wind and other atmospheric effects, 3) determine temperature profiles of the atmosphere; and 4) monitor the water vapor and dust content of the atmosphere. ...

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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): . ...

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... Orbiter . Payload of the Orbiter . ... the instruments . ... ORBITER . Index . Instrument . Mass (kg) . ARGUS . ... visible and IR mapping spectrometer . ... planetary IR Fourier spectrometer . ... mapping visible and thermal radiometer . ... mapping high-resolut. spectrophotometer . ... multichannel optical s spectrometer . ... quadrupole mass-spectrometer . ... fast omnidir. energy-mass ion analyzer . ... wave complex . ... platform for ARGUS instruments . ... MASS-MEM . ...

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Target: Venus . The Soviet VEGA Spacecraft Two remarkable "busloads" of automated spacecraft were launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in December of 1984. Each one contains three separate modules: one lander and one balloon-carried atmosphere probe to be dropped off at Venus in June, 1985, and one major package of instruments which will continue on to encounter Halley's Comet in March, 1986. ... Venus and Earth: A Comparison . Earth . ... in Earth days) . ... 243 Earth days . ...

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... Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17 > Appendix E: The NICMOS Cooling System > E.1 The NICMOS Cooling System . E.1 The NICMOS Cooling System . ... Second, the system is capable of providing large cooling power. ... The Neon gas, driven by a high speed circulator pump and cooled via the heat exchanger to the cryocooler loop, circulates through the cooling coil at the aft end of the NICMOS dewar (see Figure E.2 ), thus cooling the entire instrument. ...

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The Wind spacecraft. ... 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. ... For additional details and updates, see the home page of the "Wind" mission. Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . ...

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... NOTE that this call also sets the state of the cal to the returned instrument. The and are obtained from respectively from the INSTRUME and DATE-OBS keywords of the dataset header. The is read from the RA_PNT , DEC_PNT and PA_PNT keywords (this is actually wrong, since the instrument attitude is what should be stored in these, not the spacecraft attitude). The boresight is then obtained for the exposure start time, and calculated by applying the boresight rotation to . ...

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Instrument . ... Scanning TV-sensor with on-board data recording system for global coverage mode . ... recording, direct transmission . ... IR-radiometer for global coverage and direct data transmission modes . ... The scientific instrument package onboard the Meteor-3 spacecraft provides for regular instant acquisition of images of cloudiness and Earth surface in visible and infra-red bands, data on air temperature and humidity, sea surface temperature and clouds temperature. ...

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Mapping Mars . ... Credit Copyright: Malin Space Science Systems , MGS , JPL , NASA Explanation: This month, the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft began its primary mission to the red planet. Orbiting about once every two hours at an altitude of over 200 miles, instruments onboard MGS now regularly explore the Martian surface and atmosphere. ... Water-ice clouds can be seen hovering over the surface while the north polar cap is visible at the top of each image. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

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... Over the last decade the uninterrupted, high-resolution coverage of the Sun both from the excellent range of telescopes aboard many spacecraft and from ground-based instruments has led to a wealth of observations of small-scale dynamic events observed from the chromosphere to the transition region and corona. ... SoHO observations have further characterized many transient features, such as bi-directional jets, blinkers, coronal jets, and bright points. ...

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. Better satellite instruments are improving measurements of solar energy reaching Earth. Exactly determining the contribution of solar fluctuations to rising global temperature is expected to become possible as new instruments, such as the Total Irradiance Monitor above, further refine solar measurements. The device is scheduled to launch next month on NASA's Glory spacecraft. NASA

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Moon . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Concept Spacecraft . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This image of Earth (left) and the Moon (right) was taken by the Juno space probe's JunoCam, three weeks after its 5 August launch. (image credit:: NASA / JPL / MSSS) . ... Earth and the Moon form a тАЬdouble planetтАЭ unique in the Solar System. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

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... The TESIS is a set of solar imaging instruments developed by the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, and launched aboard the Russian spacecraft CORONAS-PHOTON on January 30, 2009. The main goal of the TESIS is to provide complex observations of solar active phenomena from the transition region to the inner and outer solar corona with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution in the EUV and Soft X-ray spectral bands. ... Solar activity hits a new low . ...

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STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

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... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

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... Launch of one ISS-21/22 Russian, one NASA crewmember and one participant of the visiting crew (VC-17) (Canada) by transport manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-16 in flight 18S; . ... Support of the Space Station functionality; . ... The flight duration of one ISS-21/22 Russian crewmember, one ISS-21/22 NASA crewmember delivered by Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft is 169 days . ... The flight duration of one ISS-22/23 Russian crewmember, one ISS-22/23 NASA crewmember delivered by Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is 159 days ...

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NASA Press Release Text - June 24, 1996 GALILEO READY FOR CLOSE FLYBY OF JUPITER'S BIGGEST MOON Now residing in orbit around Jupiter, NASA's Galileo spacecraft is primed for its first close flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, at 2:29 a.m. EDT on June 27, 1996. ... In the days just before and after the Ganymede flyby, Galileo's other studies will include a search for auroral activity on Jupiter's nightside and observations of other Jovian moons: Io, Europa and Callisto. ...

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... Astrophysics Group . ... Integration of the NIRSpec instrument . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... One of the major milestones for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been, in September 2013, the completion by ESA of NIRSpec, the first multi-object spectrograph to be operated in space. ... Cambridge, and in particular the Cavendish Astrophysics Group and the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, is heavily involved in NIRSpec by hosting one of the Instrument Science Team members (R. Maiolino). ...

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... Samara State Aerospace University Research Research and education centers Space Instruments Engineering Institute (IKP-214) . ... Developing and producing experimental test sets for modelling space environment factors interaction with spacecraft structural elements. ... Basic technolgy research set for testing equipment and interconnecting systems and small spacecraft carrying breadboard design, dynamic, thermal vacuum testing and testing of electronic equipment for electromagnetic compatibility. ...

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... Charge Coupled Devices (CCD) are currently by far the most widely used type of detector in astronomy. ... After a brief introduction to the VLT Control System, the VLT CCD Detectors Control Software is presented. The VLT Control System is a distributed system consisting of a set of UNIX Workstations, dedicated to high level operations, such as coordination of sub-system activities and interface to the users, and VME-based Local Control Units (LCU), dedicated to the control of sub-systems hardware. ...

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