... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... The Future . ... By admin August 20, 2014 Posted in: Concept Spacecraft . The XS-1 booster descending to Earth after releasing its upper stage. The expendable upper stage was carried on the spaceplane?s back. ... Northrop GrummanтАЩs proposed XS-1 is a reusable spaceplane which acts as a booster for an expendable upper stage that could place a 3000 lb (1360 kg) satellite into low Earth orbit. ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #1074 PERIOD COVERED: 0700 EST Daily Status Report as of 045/1200Z. 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed Five Sets of WF/PC-2 5240 (SMOV WF/PC-2 Flat Fields Calibration) The WF/PC-2 was used to make a set of visual internal flat images, and Earth calibration images. 14 images were received and displayed. ... The observations were completed in fine lock. A total of four observations were completed as scheduled. ...

... 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. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Development of Organizational Structure . Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . ... ISS 45/46 . ... Rocket Space Complexes . ... The experiment further develops a sequence of visual observations of the Earth surface started earlier at the Mir station. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... 5.10.2009 . ... Credit Copyright: STS-128 Crew , NASA Explanation: After undocking, the space shuttle Discovery crew got a memorable view of the developing International Space Station (ISS). ... The Discovery crew brought mission specialist Nicole Stott to the ISS , and returned astronaut Timothy Kopra to Earth. ... The next shuttle trip to the ISS is currently scheduled for 2009 November 12. ... Publications with keywords: ISS - Earth - COLBERT . Publications with words: ISS - Earth - COLBERT . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... On 9 September 2009, a contract was signed between ISC Kosmotras and SSTL for the launch of Nigeria-2 and NigeriaSat- у satellites on Dnepr rocket as part of 2010 cluster launch from Yasny Launch Base. According to information provided by SSTL the NigeriaSat-2 satellite is being built for the Nigerian government (NASRDA) as a follow-on to the NigeriaSat-1 satellite that was launched in 2003. ... E-mail: info@kosmotras.ru . ...

... Space Research Institute . ... Moscow 2005, October 3 - 6 . October 3, Monday . ... ICE BREAKER . ... SPACE SCIENCES. ... COFFEE BREAK . ... Mars: Past, present, future . ... LUNCH . ... From the Sun to the Earth and beyond - CME/Solar wind monitoring through a Solar Polar Orbiter Radio Telescope . ... Some implications of recent spacecraft data on the sources, loss and transport of magnetospheric particles . ... Space Physics as a bridge between the space science and applications . ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

... Satellite data ] . ... The SCANOR system provides receiving and processing of the Earth-surface pictures made in visible and infra-red bands and transferred by satellites of the NOAA polar orbiter series (in the HRPT mode). ... The SCANOR system includes the desktop receiving device connected to an IBM AT 386 type computer, and the parabolic antenna with the guiding mechanism. The SCANOR system possesses the state-of-art software providing registration and processing of the received data. ...

... 2009 October 5 . The International Space Station Over Earth . Credit: STS-128 Crew , NASA . Explanation: After undocking, the space shuttle Discovery crew got a memorable view of the developing International Space Station (ISS). ... The Discovery crew brought mission specialist Nicole Stott to the ISS , and returned astronaut Timothy Kopra to Earth. ... The next shuttle trip to the ISS is currently scheduled for 2009 November 12. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

Asteroid 2005 YU55 was listed on NASA's "Sentry Risk Page" as having as small (about one in 10 million) chance of hitting the Earth in the next century. We observed this asteroid with the Arecibo Planetary Radar system on April 19-23 2010. ... We obtained radar images of asteroid 2005 YU55 at 11 PM local time on 2011 Nov 9 using the Arecibo Observatory Planetary Radar System in Puerto Rico and the Robert W. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. ... Last modified 2011 November 14 . ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... A small spacecraft Aist-2D , developed by the scientists of Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and the experts of the Rocket and Space Centre Progress will see from outer space what is hidden under the thick top of trees and below the Earth's surface. The radar equipment was installed on Aist-2D , which was delivered to the space launcher complex Vostochniy on January 22. ... Tomography of the Earth's ionosphere will also be carried out. ...

... Asteroid Introduction (This Page) . ... Asteroid Summary . Asteroids . Gaspra , Ida & Dactyl , Toutatis , Castalia , Vesta , Geographos, Mathilde . ... NEAR Spacecraft Homepage . Near-Earth Asteroid 3753 - Earth's Curious Companion . ... Then on October 1991 asteroid 951 Gaspra was visited by the Galileo spacecraft and became the first asteroid to have hi-resolution images taken of it. ... Both Gaspra and Ida are classified as S-type asteroids composed of metal-rich silicates. ... Gaspra . ...

... The Irkutsk IS radar has the opportinuty to measure several ionospheric plasma parameters such as electron density N e , electron and ion temperatures T e , T i , and drift plasma velocity along the sounding direction. ... To the 1999-2001 data we have added the E-layer ionosphere model to electron concentration profile, which has been constructed by integral concentration from the ionosphere beginning from 160 km obtained from experiment. ... Capabilities and samples | ...

... I present results from several seasons of photometric observations of X--ray sources in the Orion OB1a and OB1b star formation regions. The initial goal was to measure the rotational periods of several dozen pre--main sequence (PMS) stars. ... Infrared and optical data confirm that 90% of the X--ray sources are PMS and about 10% of the PMS stars may have disks. ... I find rotation periods for five stars at confidence of greater than 99.9/ greater than 99/ at much lower confidence. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Asteroid . ... Site . ... The evening of October 26, 2011, Mark Trueblood, Robert Crawford, and Larry Lebofsky used the Kitt Peak 2.1-m telescope to observe Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) 2008 QT3. ... single still jpeg frame . ... The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) issued a press release concerning Morgan's work on Monday, November 21, 2011 and posted it on the home page of their web site . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

Swift/ XRT radiation damage and results from the lab using a proton-damaged CCD Claudio Pagani (Swift/ XRT team) XMM Calibration Meeting, Leicester, 7/3/2012 XRT CCD e2v CCD -22 detector (developed for EPIC MOS camera on XMM) Operated in Photon Counting (PC) and Windowed Timing (WT) mode 4 55Fe corner sources continuously illuminate CCD corners, used to monitor CCD performance Spectral resolution at launch: FWHM = 135 eV at Mn K- (5.9 ...

... Microstructure RAS; Nizhny Novgorod; Russia 4 National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 3050047, Japan A Superconducting Integrated Receiver ( SIR ) [1] comprises on one chip a low-noise SIS mixer with quasioptical antenna, an Flux-Flow Oscillator ( FFO ) acting as a Local Oscillator (LO) and a second SIS harmonic mixer (HM) for the FFO phase locking ... Continuous tuning of the phaselocked local oscillator has been realized at any frequency in the range 300-750 GHz. ...

A High School Curriculum in Astrobiology . Astrobiology is a truly integrated science. For example, when extreme environments of Earth are examined as a springboard to the search for life in the Solar System, other subjects?the biology of microorganisms, the chemistry of nutrients, the process of respiration, and the nature of autotrophic habitats?are intimately entwined and must be considered in one breath, albeit a long one. ...