... Mark C. Lee (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Viroqua High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 1970; received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Lee was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984. ... Lee retired from NASA and the Air Force effective July 1, 2001. ...

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... NASA astronaut . ... He worked in different areas including flight software testing in the Integrated Radio-Electronic Shuttle Laboratory, as a Technical Assistant of Crew Flight Operations Director, Representative of Astronauts Office on the Space Shuttle landing and roll back in turn, Head of the Flight Safety Department of Astronauts Office, during several Shuttle missions he communicated with the crew from MCC-H. Being a veteran of four space flights he spent more than 50 days in space. ...

MINUTES of the RadioAstron Teleconference on January 19, 2011 N. Kardashev chaired the teleconference. ... NRAO and MPIfR representatives expressed their willing to correlate RadioAstron data, and they stressed the necessity of agreements on the formats of correlator logs, time-correction file, and reconstructed orbit presentation. ... New Zeland JIVE, The Netherlands ASC, Russia NRAO, USA NRAO, USA ASC, Russia ASC, Russia NRAO, USA ASC, Russia MPIfR, Germany ASC, Russia JPL, USA NRAO, USA NAIC, USA ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Having been launched at 11:15 Moscow time from Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Dnepr LV (a converted SS-18 ICBM) successfully injected 5 RapidEye spacecraft into orbit. ... Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev, Director General of ISC Kosmotras, speaking on behalf of the Company, extended his congratulations on the successful launch to the launch customers, namely British SSTL, Canadian MDA and German RapidEye AG. ... Dnepr LV Performance . ... Launch Sites . ...

... The software systems are described following the forward and backward data flow to/from the satellite: starting from the Observation Proposal reception and archiving, the long term observation scheduling up to the detailed weekly planning and telecommands sequence uplinking, and vice versa the scientific and housekeeping raw telemetry acquisition and archiving, quick look data analysis, data reformatting and distribution as a Final Observation Tape to the Observation Proposal PI. ...

Log windows display messages from all "actors" (instruments, the TCC, the hub...) and allow you to send commands. Controls along the top allow you to filter out unwanted garbage or highlight messages of particular interest. ... Regular Expressions . ... The entry field for "+ Actors" and "+ Commands" filtering accept space-separated regular expressions . ... If you plan to send many messages to a particular actor, you may select the actor from the menu next to the command entry field. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Rockets . ... New Shepard taking off (image credit: Blue Origin) . ... This is a reusable, vertical takeoff, vertical landing two-part suborbital space vehicle. The two sections of New Shepard are a pressurised crew module or capsule for six passengers (with its own launch escape system) and a propulsion module (or booster rocket) propelled by a Blue Origin BE-3 liquid propellant rocket motor. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

... The 32nd shuttle mission to the International Space Station, STS-130, left planet Earth on February 8. Its early morning launch to orbit from Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A followed the long, graceful, eastward arc seen in this 2 minute time exposure. ... Star Cluster M34 . ... Pictured above, the space shuttle Endeavour lifted off in yesterday's early morning hours from Launch Pad 39A in Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA, bound for the International Space Station (ISS). ... Dust Storm on Mars . ...

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... Prognoz Launches . ... Images . ... antenna of the low-frequency radiation receiver of the electromagnetic field . ... panel of solar batteries . magnetometer bar Prognoz is the name of the once soviet Earth research artificial satellites (ISZ for Russian) meant to study processes of solar activity, their influence on interplanetary environment and the Earth magnetosphere. ... solar wind and magnetosphere study . ... Full image is 61k . Full image is 52k . Full image is 60k . ...

... News . ... Herschel and Planck, two new satellites, were successfully launched by ESA today. Herschel has a 3.5m mirror - the largest mirror ever launched into space - and is an infra-red mission to look at stars and galaxies. ... the Ariane 5 launcher before the launch, on 13 May 2009, enclosing Herschel and Planck and the International Year of Astronomy motto: "The Universe, Yours to Discover" (credit: ESA) . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Highlights . ... PPTA timeline . ... Data release 2 discussion . Editing this wiki . ... Detecting and limiting the gravitational-wave background: Yardley et al. (2011) used the PPTA data sets to attempt to detect a gravitational wave background. ... Jenet et al. (2006) provided the first stringent upper bound on the gravitational wave background using the PPTA data sets. ... 2012). ... We have used the PPTA observations to develop the first major pulsar-based timescale (Hobbs et al. ...

... The software systems are described following the forward and back­ ward data flow to/from the satellite: starting from the Observation Pro­ posal reception and archiving, the long term observation scheduling up to the detailed weekly planning and telecommands sequence uplinking, and vice versa the scientific and housekeeping raw telemetry acquisition and archiving, quick look data analysis, data reformatting and distribution as a Final Observation Tape to the Observation Proposal PI. ...

... Low Polar Orbit . ... Different types of satellite orbits have different uses: while the synchronous orbit is best for communication satellites, Lagrangian point orbits help monitor the solar wind before it reaches Earth. ... Many spacecraft use such orbits, e.g. the US Air Force surveillance satellites of the DMSP series, or the series of French Earth-resources spacecraft SPOT . ... If the satellite then starts near a noon-midnight orbit, it will always pass near noon and near midnight. ...

Automated Mission Planning and Scheduling (AMPS) Support of Autonomous Operations for the ST5 Constellation R ober t S hendoc k NASA/GSFC ­ SGT Inc. email: shendock@ gsfc.nasa.gov Jenny Williams NASA/GSFC ­ C SC Inc . ... New ground system technologies were utilized to satisfy flight requirements for both constellation and autonomous operations. ... This approach was supported by another of the new technologies, a model-based operations system, to adjust the plan in near real-time. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SET т?? ... space flight . ... NASA sets launch date for final space shuttle mission . ... Space shuttle Atlantis ' Commander Chris Ferguson and his three crewmates are scheduled to begin a 12-day mission to the International Space Station with a launch July 8 at 11:26 a.m. EDT from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The STS-135 mission is the final flight of the Space Shuttle Program. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... SSAU History . ... The Ground Control Complex for Small Spacecraft of Samara State Aerospace University took control of the satellites Aist-1 . ... The data received from SSAU scientific equipment on board of the satellites Aist-1 was processed by the engineers of the Rocket and Space Centre and then was transferred to the university scientists. ... On April 19, 2013 the first small spacecraft Aist-1 was launched from the space-launch complex Baykonur together with a research satellite Bion-M No. ...

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... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2010 January 11 . The Astronaut Who Captured a Satellite . ... Explanation: In 1984, high above the Earth's surface, an astronaut captured a satellite. ... Pictured above , astronaut Dale A. Gardner flies free using the Manned Maneuvering Unit and begins to attach a control device dubbed the Stinger to the rotating Westar 6 satellite. ...