At 08:32, Moscow Time, Soyuz TMA-14 descent vehicle returned to Earth. ... Russian cosmonaut G. Padalka (commander of ISS-19/20, commander of Soyuz TMA-14) and NASA astronaut M.Barratt (flight engineer of ISS-19/20 and of Soyuz TMA-14) completed their mission to the International Space Station (ISS) under the program of Expedition ISS-19/20, and a spaceflight participant, Canadian citizen G. Laliberte has completed his mission under the program of the 17th visiting mission. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Human Exploration . ... Posted on November 25, 2011 | ... Continue Reading.. Posted on September 6, 2011 | 17 Comments Apollo 18, a movie hybrid of horror and science fiction is stirring up a lot of interest. ... 127 Comments The Lunar Module was an iconic spacecraft which carried two-man crews to and from the MoonтАЩs surface during NASAтАЩs Apollo Program of the 1960s and тАШ70s.€а Along with the Saturn [ ] . ... Posted on July 28, 2011 | ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Astrophysics graduate student programs . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... To get started we first log on to lbacop-mm , second the correlator control computer lbaccc , third elleba for more correlator programs and displays, fourth we start the S2 units (the VCRs) and phase rotator control computer (the PRCC) and finally we need to synchronise the clocks. ...

... Missions . ... Future Missions and . ... Planning Scheduling . ... Multi-Objective Scheduling for NASA’s Future Deep Space Network Array . ... Adaptive Resource Modelling for Autonomous Planning and Scheduling . ... Research Trends in Autonomous Space-Based Planning and Scheduling . ... Planning and Scheduling External Occulter Space Missions . ... Planning Application for Three Mars Missions with Ensemble . ... Flexplan: An Operational Mission Planning and Scheduling COTS used Internationally . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... JOHN E. BLAHA (COLONEL, USAF, RET.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1960; received a bachelor of science in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and a master of science in astronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1966. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected as an astronaut in May 1980, Blaha has logged 161 days in space on 5 space missions. ...

... p12mProg program design . p12mProg commands . mode we use to run the p12m controller . ... The p12mProg is the AO control program for the 12meter telescope. ... Send commands to the 12m controller over ethernet (using some modbus over ethernet routines) . ... turn on,off, set modes, track objects . ... ephmFileNm: name of ephemeris file that was loaded . ... For more info on ephemeris tracking, see : pnt ephm command for 305 meter . ... The p12m controller settings used by the p12mProg are: . ...

... SSAU scientists, specialists and students were engaged in creation of new scientific equipment for the new satellite for about two years. ... It will participate in the first launch campaign from the space-launch complex Vostochniy. ... The first launch from Vostochniy will perform the Samara carrier rocket Soyuz-2.1a , which will orbit another device created by SSAU scientists and students - nanosatellite SamSat-218 , as well as the university spacecraft Mikhail Lomonosov (Moscow State University)....

... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2014 6 November 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Preparations for the Dnepr cluster launch mission that will carry 6 spacecraft on-board are currently under way at Baikonur Cosmodrome. ... Dnepr LV . ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... The program wvrretrieve which can be used to retrieve atmospheric water vapour and optionally estimate excess continuum at 183 GHz is quite computationally intensive. ... For this reason I implemented a very simple server/client arrangement so that the control computers can call the wvrretrieve program on another computer (obvious candidate being osf-red) fetch the results from there. ... On the server machine the wvrserve.py script is run. ... serve_forever ()...

... Russian Moon exploration program currently consists of three successive missions, using the legacy of earlier Soviet lunar missions, which included orbiters and landers, sample returns and rovers. ... Currently Russian Moon missions are as follows: . Luna-25 (also known as Luna-Glob-Lander) mission to land the spacecraft on the Moon and the first in a row of a new lunar program, which should eventually lead to exploitation of the Moon. ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... The contemporary world opinion, while welcoming the efforts of different states aimed at realization of manned space flights, still considers these efforts insufficient, over-bureaucratized and too slow. ... The more up-to-date is the basic training program for a cosmonaut/astronaut or a manned space flight participant (hereinafter referred to as the student) that is being offered to your interested attention. ... Pre-flight space training (PFST). ...

... In order to realize the optimal scientific return from the VLT, ESO has undertaken to develop an end-to-end data flow system from proposal entry to science archive. The VLT Data Flow System (DFS) is being designed and implemented by the DFS Group (ESO Internal access only) in collaboration with VLT Division and Instrumentation Division . ... VLT Control System Interface . ... OBs are the quantum of data that flows within the DFS, collecting state, data and status information as they flow. ...

home support . ... Universe in the Classroom. ... With fourteen sites across the country, over 600 amateur and professional astronomers partnered with local teachers to serve over 20,000 students in Project ASTRO with over 175,000 students served during the course of the program. ... A partnership program of over 240 amateur astronomy clubs from every state with more than 5,400 events reaching over 450,000 people in face-to-face education and public outreach activities over the past three years. ...

Next: Running UNIX Commands from C Up: UNIX and C Previous: errno . A process is basically a single running program. ... When UNIX runs a process it gives each process a unique number - a process ID, pid . The UNIX command ps will list all current processes running on your machine and will list the pid. The C function int getpid() will return the pid of process that called this function. ... Running UNIX Commands from C . ... Piping in a C program . ... Interrupts and Signals . ...

Download 1.1 Beta Now! ... Separate object manipulation mode added (also still available with Control Key). ... Tom's TkDraw is currently in beta release. It is my own personal drawing program and original Tcl/Tk project which I started more than ten years ago. ... Limited support for images was just added, and is great for tracing an image, or adding some annotations to an image (for instance drawing a route onto a map without actually altering the map image). drag, reshape, and resize objects . ...

FIRST SCREEN . Input files : image with wedges and image with spectrum (fits or tiff format). ... What to do : First of all you must fill in the region which the profiles should be taken from, by pressing "range for profiles" button. ... SECOND SCREEN . ... THIRD SCREEN . ... In the first screen you can change the size of the image by pressing "CHANGE SIZE" button. ... After pressing "Next profile" button, click to the same spectral lines in the same order as you did in the first profile. ...

... spectrum . ... sfit . ... define >macro_name< : define a macro . ... meth_range <w1> <w2>: Set wavelength range for fit . data_spectrum <name> : data in "spectrum" format . ... data_sigma <sigma> : define mean standard error in data . ... data_line_set | ... NB: synth uses multiple calls to spectrum , so various Spectrum commands may also be required. synth : find optimum fit by adjusting abundances, v turb , v sin i , and v rad . ... save <fit> : Save the spectrum and best fit from synth . ...

... He joined ESO in 1990, to integrate the Image Processing Group for the development of instrument-related software in MIDAS. ... Carlos is a staff member of the European Space Agency, currently working in the XMM-Newton Space Operations Centre, at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), located in Villafranca del Castillo, Spain. ... He is currently an associate professor at the Astronomy Data Center (ADC) of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan in charge of data management. ...

... Apollo 17 s Moonship . ... Credit: Apollo 17 , NASA (Image scanned by Kipp Teague) Explanation: Awkward and angular looking, Apollo 17's lunar module Challenger was designed for flight in the vacuum of space. This sharp picture from the command module America , shows Challenger's ascent stage in lunar orbit. ... This spaceship performed gracefully, landing on the moon and returning the Apollo astronauts to the orbiting command module in December of 1972 - but where is Challenger now? ...