... NASA Astronaut (FORMER) . ... As an MVL team member, he conducted neurovestibular research on astronauts on the Spacelab Life Sciences 2 shuttle mission (STS-58). ... Beginning in January 2012, Robinson served as Director of the NASA Johnson Space Center Virtual Reality Laboratory as well as Chief of Aviation Safety for the Astronaut Office. ... Dr. Stephen Robinson has flown on four space shuttle missions and has served as a backup crew member for the fourth crew of the International Space Station:...

... S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Korolev, Moscow Region . S.P.Korolev RSC Energia hosted training sessions under the crew-training program for Expedition Twenty to the International Space Station (ISS-20). The list of subjects covered by the Corporation specialists in the training sessions with Russian cosmonauts R.Romanenko and his backup D.Kondratiev included: . ... operating Zveno-B equipment, . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... New Mexico State University is seeking a technical and computer-oriented person as a Support Astronomer for nighttime astronomical observing at Apache Point Observatory (APO) with the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) 3.5m Telescope. б  . ... Paper/email documents will not be accepted. ... TELESCOPE OPERATIONS SPECIALIST . ... Responsibilities include nightly operation of the 3.5m telescope and instruments, Quality monitoring the data streams and system performance and observing efficiency. ...

... Applying the Lessons Learned from HST Operations to New Missions" , presented at SPIE's International Symposium Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation . ... Portable Astronomical Scheduling Tools" presented at the ADASS V Conference . A System for Long-Term Scheduling of Ground-Based Observatories" ( html , postscript ) presented at the Conference on New Observing Modes My technical papers, as well as those by STScI colleagues are available on-line. ... Spike planning and scheduling system . ...

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. ... Information on the NTP architecture, protocol and algorithms can be found in the following articles and reports, which are available online . Mills, D.L. Internet time synchronization: the Network Time Protocol. ... Mills, D.L. Network Time Protocol (Version 3) specification, implementation and analysis. ...

Vertex Contract in Hindsight Computer driven control system design philosphy A contract for a complex software-driven system should include: 1. ... A complicated system should contain its own development system, i.e. it should be possible to program and reprogram the system from its own operating console or terminal. ... A general and flexible approach for our pointing system would be to have all the sensors and effectors connected to an upstairs unit that is driven by a fast Ethernet connection. ...

... 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 . ...

NIST Spetial Publication 500-220 . Guide on Open System Environment (OSE) Procurements . ... An Open System Environment encompasses the functionality needed to provide interoperability, portability, and scalability of computerized applications across networks of heterogeneous, multi-vendor hardware/software/communications platforms. ... The Open System Environment concept has become ubiquitous throughout both the public and private sectors. ... ACQUIRING AN OPEN SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT 11 . ...

LOFAR in Australia ­ A Brief Engineering Perspective By Dr Peter J Hall, CSIRO SKA/LOFAR Program Leader 6 November, 2002 Background LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) is a proposed radio telescope designed to operate in the approximate frequency range 10 - 250 MHz. ... In both cases, the instruments would be built and operated by international consortia; Australia is a founding member of the 11-participant SKA consortium and may join the USA and Europe in the LOFAR endeavour. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . Login . See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . ... They also provide consulting services in the general area of scientific data acquisition and visualization. ... Listed Since February 16, 1999 . ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . are trademarks of John Huggins ...

... fine at head dot cfa dot harvard dot edu . ... Twelve years software development in UNIX environments, with a strong emphasis on user interface development and user-centered design. ... Strong background in computer security, including maintenance of host and network security, investigation of security incidents, development of secure protocols and authentication software, and statistical analysis of security logs. ... Experience: . ... Developed WWW-based nameserver administration software. ...

As an obligatory preparing for the application to participate in the IAO a short report of National Olympiad of the current year with a set of all problems used on the Olympiad has to be presented by the applicating team. ... The final minutes (protocols written in Latin or Cyrillic in form of tables) of the Olympiad (evaluating of solutions of the students participated in the last stage of the Olympiad) should be included as well. ... Historical data of the National Astronomy Olympiad: . ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...

... Armagh Observatory astronomers report the publication of the first stunning celestial images obtained with the 11-metre multi-national Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) . ... Exactly five years after groundbreaking, the SALT project has released its first colour images, marking the achievement of 'first light' and the successful debut of full operation for SALTICAM, a $600,000 digital camera designed and built for SALT at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) . ...

... Fortunately, astronomy is an exception in this regard. ... As commercial databases have been described in detail before (see e.g. Watson 1991), this chapter will concentrate on Library information services that require neither an account nor a password and do not charge fees according to the connecting time or the number of data sets that are displayed or downloaded. ... American Astronomical Society (AAS) . Astronomical Observatory Trieste (OAT) library . ... Center for Astrophysics library . ...

... John Backus in New Mexico, 1976 . ... Other manufacturers came later with Fortran compilers for their machines and in 1962 IBM introduced the extended Fortran IV, which was the base for the 1966 agreed American standard ANSI X3.9 - 1966. ... An HTML version of the Fortran 77 Standard is now available! ... The purpose of the work on a new standard version was to make Fortran usable and efficient language for scientific and technical computations during the nineties. ... Parallel execution . ...

... A Supply Ship Docks with the International Space Station . ... Credit Copyright: ISS Expedition 16 Crew, NASA Explanation: Looking out a window of the International Space Station brings breathtaking views. ... The Expedition 17 crew, including NASA flight engineer Gregory Chamitoff , will carry out repairs on the ISS , explore new methods of living in space, and conduct research in space including the effects of space radiation on vitamin molecules. ... A Dark Earth with a Red Sprite . ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII ASP Conference Series, Vol. 314, 2004 F. Ochsenbein, M. Al len, and D. Egret, eds. JPEG 2000 Compression for the Downlink and Archiving of Astronomical Data Janet C. Rountree, Brian N. Webb Science Applications International Corporation, 101 N. Wilmot Rd., ... JPEG 2000, the new International Standard for still image compression, has many unique features that offer advantages for users of astronomical data. ... WT=Wavelet transform. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Fees . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Site . ... Telescope Aperture / Mount . ... 20,000 . ... Meade 20-inch MAX on MAX Mount . ... Housing in our automatic observatory at our site near Sonoita, Arizona . ... Telescope (you provide the telescope, mount, control computer, cables, etc.) ... Long distance telephone charges for calls initiated by your computer or staff on Winer telephones . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...