... The spacecraft of Magion type have been selected as the subsatellites of the Interball project: Magion-4 (C2-X) for the Tail Probe and Magion-5 (C2-A) for the Auroral Probe. ... Magion-4 was produced in the Czech Republic in collaboratrion with Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Austria and has onboard scientific instruments and sensors designed and built in Czech Republic, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovak Republic. ... Plasma flow detector VDP-S (Czech Republic, Russia) . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Mercury . ... News . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... Data from MESSENGER spacecraft reveals new insights on planet Mercury . ... On March 17, MESSENGER completed its one-year primary mission, orbiting Mercury, capturing nearly 100,000 images, and recording data that reveals new information about the planet's core, topography, and the mysterious radar-bright material in the permanently shadowed areas near the poles. ...

Mercury Winter 2011 Table of Contents . ... An artist's impression of MESSENGER in orbit at Mercury. ... For instance, after liftoff in August 1977, it took Voyager 2 two years to reach Jupiter; three to get to Saturn; seven to reach Uranus; and more than 10 years to arrive at Neptune.Add on the pre-launch years required for mission concept and development, plus time for spacecraft construction, and it's no surprise that some astronomers devoted most of their career to the Voyager missions. ...

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): . ...

... 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. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2008 January 16 . MESSENGER Passes Mercury . ... Explanation: Two days ago, the MESSENGER spacecraft became only the second spacecraft in human history to swoop past Mercury. ... The above image was taken two days ago during MESSENGER's flyby and shows part of Mercury's surface that has never been imaged in detail before. ... About APOD | ...

... LCROSS , LRO , NASA Explanation: Is there enough water on the moon to sustain future astronauts? The question has important implications if humanity hopes to use the Moon as a future outpost. Last year , to help find out, scientists crashed the moon-orbiting LCROSS spacecraft into a permanently shadowed crater near the Moon's South Pole. ... Publications with keywords: Moon - water - water-ice - crater . Publications with words: Moon - water - water-ice - crater . ... Moon Meets Jupiter . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . ... Science Fiction . ... June 1983, Sally K. Ride, mission specialist on STS-7, monitors control panels from the pilot's chair on Challenger's Flight Deck.( ... She also authored a hefty blueprint for future space exploration entitled Leadership and AmericaтАЩs Future in Space . ... Astronaut, scientist and teacher, Sally Ride (1951-2012) was one of those people who made a difference.She will be missed. ...

Jupiter's volcano-pocked moon Io has been found by NASA's Galileo spacecraft to have a giant iron core that takes up half its diameter, scientists report in today's issue of Science magazine. The spacecraft also has detected a large "hole" in Jupiter's magnetic field near Io, leading to speculation about whether Io possesses its own magnetic field. ... Galileo scientists also are trying to determine the cause of the hole they found in Jupiter's magnetic field when the spacecraft was closest to Io. ...

Galileo Finds Giant Iron Core in Jupiter's Moon Io . Jupiter's volcano-pocked moon Io has been found by NASA's Galileo spacecraft to have a giant iron core that takes up half its diameter, scientists report in today's issue of Science magazine. The spacecraft also has detected a large "hole" in Jupiter's magnetic field near Io, leading to speculation about whether Io possesses its own magnetic field. If so, it would be the first planetary moon known to have one. ... Space History Galileo . ...

. Note: This material is from a 1994(!) Talk about CCDs - the physics remains the same, only the detector size has increased since then. ___________________________________________________________________ The Electronic Universe Project e-mail: nuts@moo.uoregon.edu

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... We computed the permanently shadowed areas and temperatures inside the craters for the variation of the position of the lunar pole of rotation with respect to the ecliptic pole with a period of 18.6 years. ... According to our results, the total permanently shadowed area in the polar craters of the Moon is equal to 50428.7 km2, or 0.13% of the total area of the lunar surface [3]. ... The area of permanently shaded part of a crater makes 59 % from all area of a crater [3]. ...

... Click on this icon if you would like to see a collection of snapshots of actual pages from the "Magellan Highlights of Venus" Electronic PictureBook. ... The Magellan Highlights of Venus Electronic PictureBook is a HyperCardЁ stack designed to run on a color MacintoshЁ computer with at least 2.5 megabytes of available RAM, sufficient hard disk space to contain the Electronic Picturebook, System 7.0, and HyperCard 2.1 or HyperCard Player 2.1. ...

... A small yet powerful planning and scheduling toolkit has been built for the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite ( SWAS ) Small Explorer spacecraft. ... The simple design, minimal resource requirements and easy extensibility of the SWAS planning and scheduling toolkit should make it useful for other space astronomy missions. ... The relatively severe time and manpower constraints for the development of the SWAS Planning and Scheduling toolkit have forced it to remain small and simple. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... History . ... Rocket Systems . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... From 1989 to 2014 V.P. Legostaev as Vice-President, First Deputy General Designer headed work under the International Space Projects (The International Space Station and the Sea-Based Rocket and Space Complex Sea Launch), as well as supervises the development of telecommunication satellites and remote sensing satellites, organization of research from board the manned complexes. ...

... Polish scientists at the Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, in Wroclaw, south-west Poland, have constructed an instrument called SphinX (short for Solar PHotometer In X-rays), which is an X-ray spectrophotometer, that will obtain spectra in the energy range 0.5--15 keV in 256 energy channels with frequency of up to 100 times a second. ... SphinX is part of a package of instruments known as TESIS (PI Prof. Sergei Kuzin, Lebedev Institute, Moscow). ... Space Research Centre, . ...

... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. Ученые сообщают, что в результате наблюдений за объектом в далекой вселенной возникла противоречивая альтернатива теории черных дыр. Если их интерпретация верна, то это может означать, что черных дыр не существует, что на самом деле это диковинные сгустки плазмы под названием MECO (Magnetospheric Eternally Collapsing Objects - магнитосферные вечно коллапсирующие объекты), сообщает New Scientist (текст на сайте Inopressa.ru). ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Февраль 1998 . ... Дата: 02 февраля 1998 (1998-02-02) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Lunar Prospector Update - January 29, 1998 Привет всем! ... Lunar Prospector Mission Status Report #16 January 29, 1998 7 p.m. EST (4:00 p.m. PST) The Lunar Prospector spacecraft continues to operate well according to Mission Control at NASA_s Ames Research Center. ...

... MAO main . ... Announcement : Conference on AUTONOMOUS SPACECRAFT NAVIGATION - New Concepts, Technologies & Applications for the 21st Century . ... От: Heraeus announcements . ... Тема: Announcement : Conference on AUTONOMOUS SPACECRAFT NAVIGATION - New Concepts, Technologies Applications for the 21st Century . This announcement was send to several email lists. ... AUTONOMOUS SPACECRAFT NAVIGATION . New Concepts, Technologies Applications for the 21st Century . ...