National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

... TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION . ... Following a 188-day flight program the Expedition 9 crew of the International Space Station (ISS-9) consisting of the commander Gennady Padalka, Russian cosmonaut, and the flight engineer Michael Fincke, U.S. astronaut, returned to Earth in Soyuz TMA-4 descent vehicle. ... The Russian Soyuz TMA-4 manned transport spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS) Orbital Complex. ... The Soyuz-FG - Soyuz TMA-4 system was erected on the launcher. ...

... Our tours this year include: Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Bauman Moscow State Technical University Orevo Laboratory, Russian Mission Control Center (TsUP), Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Lavochkin Scientific and Industrial Association, Energomash Scientific and Industrial Association, Scientific and Industrial Association "Zvezda", Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Monino Air Force Museum. Bauman Moscow State Technical University . Moscow) . ...

OptInt PmWiki . ... Edit Page | Page History | Attach | ... MROI Delay Line Design Contract . ... Document Management . ... Design Documentation . ... Released FDR Documents . ... MROI DL Production SW Contract . ... MROI Fast Tip-Tilt Contract . ... Design Documents . ... MROI . ... MROI FTT Contract Private Material . Contract Documents . ... MROI DL Design Contract Private Material . ... AP local page . ... Include Other Pages . ... Page last modified on December 01, 2009, at 06:39 AM . ...

... HST . ... Data . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Black and White (pdf file, 14.5 MB) or . ... Streaming Video (courtesy of CPT) Session IV: Science Data Processing/ Data Ingest and the HST Pointing Processes , D. Fraquelli and R. Doxsey, 11/13/03 . ... In this presentation, Herb Kennedy discusses a discription and overview of the HST Archive, including a description of data flow, ingest and distribution pipelines and how they work. ... HST Archive/ Data Distribution (pdf file, 17.5 MB) . ...

... Created: 23 February 2001 . ... SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE MANUAL . ... 9 January 2001 . ... Note: in the final document, the table of contents will be to third level] . The Software Maintenance Manual describes the procedures for installation and maintenance of the software for the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS). ... Section 19.4.3 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Software Maintenance Manual . ...

Mariner 10 . ... Mariner 10 was the seventh successful launch in the Mariner spacecraft series, and the first to use the gravitational pull of one planet ( Venus ) to reach another ( Mercury ). ... It measured 1.39 meters (4.56 feet) diagonally and 0.457 meters (1.5 feet) in depth. ... Views of Mariner 10 . ... Venus/Mercury Mission . ... Launched in November 1973, this mission provided new information about Mercury and Venus in the Mariner program's first dual-planet mission. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

... The mirrorCtrl mirror controller actor controls one telescope mirror. It accepts desired orientation and commands mirror motion accordingly. ... It is presently designed to command a Galil mirror controller , but one may add support for other low-level motion controllers. mirrorCtrl is written pure Python. ... Home the desired actuators, where actuator list is a comma-separated list of actuator letters A through F (but some mirrors have fewer than 6 actuators). 2.5m M1 valid actuators: A-F . ...

... Next: Space and the Up: GUIs and Visualization Previous: A Graphical Planning . ... The WIYN 3.5m Telescope Control System features a platform independent, network transparent protocol for distributing telescope control data to both local and remote sites. ... The WIYN Engineering Data Subsystem (EDS) is a spacecraft-style telemetry system that sends telescope telemetry (encoders, currents, voltages, pointing data, etc.) in a machine-independent format to clients connected across a network. ...

... The charge coupled devices (CCD’s) incorporate a full frame transfer (FFT) architecture and is available in front or back illuminated configurations. These are scientific grade CCD’s with low dark current MPP operation, 8 electrons rms readout noise and wide dynamic range. ... By flipping the CCD chip over and chemically etching the back surface we avoid absorption losses encountered in the FI-CCD and greatly enhance sensitivity. ... The readout mode is software controllable. ...

From: TerryMosel aol.com Date: 30 November 2006 23:07:50 GMT Subject: Events, News, Shuttle mission Hi all, It's a busy time of year! ... Details are at www.astronomy.ie . ... STS-116 will deliver a third truss segment, a SPACEHAB module and other key components during the Shuttle's 20th mission to the International Space Station (ISS). ... The astronauts will head outside the ISS in their EVA suits and wait for mission control to switch off the ISS power. ... Clear Skies, Terry Moseley . ...

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. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... A task of selection and preflight training is to form up and to train a crew for a space mission. ... Training in crews on the "Soyuz" transport space vehicle and on the "Earth-Moon-Earth" interplanetary flight program, . ... Basic space training of a lunar crew provides for acquiring a fundamental knowledge on the origin, structure and evolution of the Universe, studying methods and means of space flights performance, use of space for the benefit of mankind. ...

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 . ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... Posts tagged ?training data? ... Among billion objects in our Galaxy, outside the Earth, our Sun drags most attention from astronomers. ... Related to the latter, sometimes studying the conditions on the Sun is called space weather forecast. ... Tags: classifier , forecast , logistic regression , machine learning , predictor , response , space weather , Sun , sunspot , SVM , test data , training data , weather . ... Comment . ... Entries RSS . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ...

... Preprocessor Compiler Control . ... This directive includes a file into code. ... include <file> or #include ``file'' . ... As another example if running program on MSDOS machine we want to include file msdos.h otherwise a default.h file. ... This is most often used with programs that translate other languages to C. For example, error messages produced by the C compiler can reference the file name and line numbers of the original source files instead of the intermediate C (translated) source files. ...

... New engineering model of the feed system is under development now. ... Appendix (The list of used acronyms) ASC Cold Plate DC Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Instutute cooled LNAs and antenna feed hermetic device container (part of payload); it contains Formatter, Rb oscillators, synthesizer, control unit and is placed under dish DM Device Module = DC + H-maser EGSE Electronic Ground Support Equipment Electronic Complex ­ all SRT electronics EM Engineering Model FC Focal ...

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. ...