... In accordance with the de-orbit plan the OC "Mir" is in a waiting mode continuing its deceleration in Earth atmosphere. During the previous day the OC "Mir" onboard systems were subject to a routine check out, the current trajectory parametres were registered. The processed information confirms the MCC readiness for the final stage dynamis operations with the OC "Mir". ... The first corrective impuls ( the cargo ship "Progress M1-5" 8 control engines are fired): . T burn start - 03.32; . ...

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: . ...

... The Russian Soyuz TMA-5 manned transport spacecraft docked to the Orbital Complex of the International Space Station (ISS). ... A Russian manned transportation spacecraft Soyuz TMA-5 developed and manufactured at the S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia was launched to the International Space Station (ISS), in low-Earth orbit since November 1998. The launch of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle carrying the Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft took place at 7:06:28 Moscow Daylight Saving Time. ...

... LRP: o ? ... prime have been unsuccessful o 03.011:17:10 - Primary ATM switch failure - HSTAR 8895 - All(?) strings offline for ~15 minutes Operations analysis projects status: o Data Volume working groups - Alan Patterson o ACS large parallel scheduling - Calendar builders/George Chapman o STIS/MAMA SNAP scheduling - Bill Hathaway o SMS/PASS GUI - Don Chance, Greg Wenzel, Kerry Clark Orbit Planning/Implementation Statistics: o Orbit Summary: o 1885 GO/GTO/ CAL ...

... Solar System . ... European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system тАФ the nearest to Earth. ... Alpha Centauri is one of the brightest stars in the southern skies and is the nearest stellar system to our Solar System тАФ only 4.3 light-years away. ... The European team detected the planet by picking up the tiny wobbles in the motion of the star Alpha Centauri B created by the gravitational pull of the orbiting planet [2] . ...

... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Late Stages of Stellar Evolution . Welcome to the home page of the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution" We are a research group which operates within the Astrophysics Group of the Australia Telescope National Facility. ... To investigate the late stages of stellar evolution and in particular the role of stellar mass-loss in the evolution of asymptotic giant branch stars, proto-planetary nebulae and extremely massive stars. ...

Tail Probe is one of the satellites of the INTERBALL program. ... Collection of the orbital elements | ... Flight situation analysis during operations scheduling . ... Two stages of the orbital situation analysis are presented: . ... The satellites motion calculation during the flight situation analysis is based on the orbital elements, determined by the Ballistic center at KIAM RAN. The modified (by backward integration) orbital elements are usedduring the aposteriory situation analysis. ...

... CONTACT . P. Andreani (ESO) . D. Bockelee-Morvan (Paris) . ... C. De Breuck (ESO) . ... R. Laing (ESO) . ... M. Zwaan (ESO) The Herschel Satellite and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) are two very large sub-mm and far infrared (FIR) astronomy projects that are expected to come into operation in this decade. ... This report is addressed to an audience of non-specialist astronomers who may be interested in extending their areas of research by making use of Herschel and ALMA instruments. ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... honing the skills of performing the tasks of operating the orbital (suborbital) spaceship in a normal autonomous flight and in case of occurrence of off-optimum situations; . ... preparing for conducting visual observations, photographing and video filming envisaged by the flight program; . ... preparing the astronaut's body to the effect of space flight factors, honing the skills of operating the spaceborne medical facilities, rendering self and mutual aid; . ...

Next: RSOG Pre-Observation Products . ... Mission Elements . ... The main mission elements (ME) are: . The RSOG, based at ASC, which is responsible for the science operation of the RadioAstron Mission. ... The Main Ballistic(Navigation) Center (MBC) belonging to Lavochkin Association coordinates preparation and exchange of orbit determination and orbit reconstraction ptoducts. ... Experiment codes of five characters are used in naming GRT related files. ... RSOG . ... Corr (GTS?) ... Corr (RSOG?) ...

... Stephen G. Bowen (CAPTAIN, USN) . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: €а Bowen is the first Submarine Officer selected by NASA in July 2000 as a mission specialist.€а He reported for training at the Johnson Space Center in August 2000.€а Following the completion of two years of training and evaluation, he was initially assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Station Operations Branch.€а A veteran of three spaceflights, STS-126 in 2008, STS-132 in 2010, and STS-133 in 2011, €аBowen has logged ...

The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii)community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Status as a designated observatory will be reviewed every 2 years based on calendar year annual reports submitted in January. ... phone: 02 6125 0268 . ... Registry Number . ... Number of nights . ...

From: TerryMosel@aol.com Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 20:31:06 EST Subject: Mystery object nr ISS, radio, NEAT etc Hi all, 1. ... I'm giving the lecture again to the IAS in Dublin next Monday [if the Aliens don't get me first] - more on that later) Terry Moseley ______________________ From: "Dr John Mason" Subject: Re: Object near ISS after Shuttle re-entry Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:40:07 -0000 Dear All, I raised this issue, here in the UK, immediately after the Shuttle disaster. ...

... IAA VLBI Analysis Center . ... First IAA SLR EOP submission to IERS Annual Report . ... Beginning of operational processing of SLR observations . ... We use several program packages for analysis mostly developed at the IAA: GROSS for processing of the SLR observations and analysis of EOP and coordinates time series, OCCAM/GROSS for computation of EOP, station coordinates, and troposphere parameters time series from the VLBI observations, GRAPE for processing of GPS observations. ...

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... 6:10 p.m. NASA's Galileo spacecraft has successfully entered orbit around Jupiter after its six-year trip through the solar system. ... Launched October 18, 1989, Galileo has traveled 3.7 billion kilometers (2.3 billion miles) in a looping path through the solar system to reach Jupiter, which is 934 million kilometers (580 million miles) away from Earth. ...

... The Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... The spacecraft acquired photographic data from November 18 to 25, 1966, and readout occurred through December 7, 1966. ... The two separate lens, shutter, and platen systems utilized the same film supply and recorded imagery simultaneously in adjacent areas on 70-millimeter film. ...

Lunar Orbiter 2 . ... The Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... The spacecraft acquired photographic data from November 18 to 25, 1966, and readout occurred through December 7, 1966. ... The two separate lens, shutter, and platen systems utilized the same film supply and recorded imagery simultaneously in adjacent areas on 70-millimeter film. ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...