... ESA/NASA Solar Probe . ESA Comet Rendevous/Landing . ... It will carry two probes to land on the comet's surface and perform in-situ measurements. ... After launch in January 2003, Rosetta will fly out to Mars for a gravity assist and return for an Earth flyby approximately 3 years after launch. ... After the asteroid flyby, the spacecraft enters a heliocentric drift phase to intercept the comet at a point close enough to allow communication with the Earth. ...

... NEAR Spacecraft Survives Landing on Asteroid Eros . ... Credit: NEAR Project , JHU APL , NASA Explanation: Yesterday NEAR-Shoemaker became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid and send signals back from its surface. Since the robot spacecraft was not designed for such a contingency , the success of the landing on asteroid 433 Eros was not assured. ... Publications with keywords: NEAR-Shoemaker - asteroid - Eros . Publications with words: NEAR-Shoemaker - asteroid - Eros . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2001 February 13 . NEAR Spacecraft Survives Landing on Asteroid Eros . ... Explanation: Yesterday NEAR-Shoemaker became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid and send signals back from its surface. Since the robot spacecraft was not designed for such a contingency , the success of the landing on asteroid 433 Eros was not assured. ...

Courtesy of NASA's National Space Science Data Center . ... The Lunar Orbiter 4 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. ... This experiment consisted of a dual-lens camera system designed to satisfy the primary mission objective of providing photogaphic information for mapping and for the evaluation of Apollo and Surveyor landing sites. ...

... The 30" Reynolds reflector, 1917-2003 . Reynolds fitted with a spectrograph designedтАж . ... Title: Reynolds fitted with a spectrograph designed by Dr Heinz Gollnow and built at Stromlo, early 1950s . ...

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... Delivery to the Martian surface of a group of vehicles to make up a self-propelled train . ... The vehicle was to be assembled in low-earth orbit and then launched towards Mars with a crew of six, three of which were to land on Mars. ... Upon completion of activities on the surface, the crew with soil samples and other research results were to return to the spacecraft in low Mars orbit and then blast off for Earth. ... MARTION MISSION | ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

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... The seeing was good enough to be able to reduce both 850 and 450 micron data. aperture calculated from 850 micron data . ... Data, model and residuals for 450 micron data These maps were taken in March 2001. ... 1mm defocus data and model maps . 0.5mm defocus data and model maps . infocus data and model maps . ... The map of surface errors (shown as phase errors in radians) and the map of calcualated surface illumination is shown in the following plot: . ... 2mm defocus data and model maps . ...

... Tracy Caldwell Dyson (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut . ... Caldwell Dyson has worked inside the Mission Control Center as spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) for both space shuttle and space station operations, serving also as the lead CAPCOM for ISS Increment 11. ... Caldwell Dyson operated EndeavourтАЩs robotic arm to maneuver the Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS) and handover the S5 truss segment to the space station, and served as the intravehicular (IV) crew member, directing the four spacewalks. ...

Space vehicle "Apollo-11". ... The main aim is to carry the cosmonauts on the Moon, there are also pilotless flights and the spacemen's flights around the Earth, the "Apollo" modification were used to carry the cosmonauts on the orbit station 'Skylab' and joined with the Soviet spaceship "Sojus-19" on the programme APAS . ... The first was N. Armstrong in "Apollo-11", E. Aldrin (1969) ( см. D. Irvin on the Moon ). The maximum time of the being in the Moon is 75 hours ("Apollo-17", 1972). ...

Журнал ПОВЕРХНОСТЬ публикует оригинальные статьи и обзоры по наиболее актуальным проблемам изучения поверхностных явлений. ... Редакция журнала 'Поверхность. ... Англоязычная версия журнала Journal of Surface Investigation . X-Ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques выходит 6 раз в год . The Journal of Surface Investigation. X-ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques ( Poverkhnost '. ... X-ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques is abstracted and/or indexed in (Impact Factor 0.359): . ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Early Mars bombardment likely enhanced life-supporting habitat . ... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... Asteroid DayУ?т??т??s Don Yeomans: Will asteroid 2013 TX68 strike Earth? ... How do mission designers know at what angle to land on an astronomical body such as the Moon, Mars, or Earth? ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... VLT/Paranal . ... Survey Telescopes . ... The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is the latest telescope to be added to ESOтАЩs Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. ... It is the largest telescope in the world dedicated to sky surveys in visible light. The VST was designed and built by the INAFтАУOsservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy as part of a joint venture between INAF and ESO. €а . ... VLT Survey Telescope . ...

Three education activities and teachers' workshops will take place at the San Diego meeting of the American Astronomical Society, 7 - 11 June. ... Many astronomers (about 40% of AAS members according to the recent ASP/AAS survey) now have some involvement in K-12 education. ... Consequently, NIST's Metric Program offers an array of products designed to educate the public on the history and merits of the metric system. ... Visit the Metric Program on the web at http://www.nist.gov/metric . ...

... Monitoring of the atmosphere, ionosphere, and the Earth’s surface. ... Educational programs. ... The first microsatellite of IKI RAN Kolibri-2000 was designed in the frame of Russian-Australian educational project and was launched from the ISS orbit in 2002. ... Total mass                                                             ~40 kg . ... RKK Energiya, FGUP PO Polyot, NPO Kvant, FGUP NPO Mashinostroeniya. ... M.B. Dobriyan, Director +7(08435)2-17-48, info@skbkp.tarusa.ru . ...

... Launch Vehicles and Spaceships . We have two rockets used to launch manned spaceships : . ... VIR 2000 will be employed with the SIRIO 2000 spaceship. ... It can carry 960,000 pounds into several planets orbit or launch a 180,000 pound payload on several planets journey. VIR 2001 will be employed with the SIRIO 2001 spaceship. ... They test many of the techniques required for landing men on different planets , such as rendezvous procedures and leaving and re-entering and orbiting a spaceship. ...

OSLO LT V5.4 Optical Software For Layout And Optimization . Articles | ... Has anyone out there tried to raytrace a telescope design? ... OSLO LT keeps track of the optical path length each ray travels, so it knows the phase relationship of the light as it travels through the telescope. ... Through the use of OSLO LT, I've been able to refine the optical design of the telescope I'm working on. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... 2 Columns At the present time, the REGION table is de ned for a two-dimensional space. ... ROTANG (rotation angle): for rotated elements; like X and Y, this column needs to contain vectors of suфcient length. ... Table 1: REGION Table SHAPEs SHAPE X Y R ROTANG Point X Y Circle Xcen Ycen R Ellipse Xcen Ycen Rmaj ; Rmin Angle Annulus Xcen Ycen Rin ; Rout Elliptannulus Xcen Ycen Rinmaj ; Rinmin ; Angin ; Routmaj ; Routmin Angout Box Xcen Ycen Xsize ; Ysize Rotbox Xcen ...

Super Rocket Targets . NPO MOLNIYA has been designing rockets-targets for over 30 years using the great experience in crea-ting anti-aircraft guided rockets (AGR) for C-25M. On the basis of B-300 anti-aircraft rockets which expired their service life, there were designed, tested and put into the serial production the following types of the rocket - ... The analogue of this system successfully passed the state tests with the ZVEZDA-4 rocket-target. ...