... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... A small spacecraft Aist-2D , developed by the scientists of Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and the experts of the Rocket and Space Centre Progress will see from outer space what is hidden under the thick top of trees and below the Earth's surface. The radar equipment was installed on Aist-2D , which was delivered to the space launcher complex Vostochniy on January 22. ... Tomography of the Earth's ionosphere will also be carried out. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... History . ... News . ... Russian logistics spacecraft Progress M-21M has docked with the International Space Station (ISS). ... The crew of Expedition 38 to ISS working on-board the space station monitored the process of rendezvous and docking. ... According to telemetry data and reports from the ISS crew, the on-board systems of the space station and spacecraft operate normally. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... According to Ron Miller, author of the respected history of spaceship concepts The Dream Machines , the first known appearance of the tale in print was in the 2 October Тљ1909 issue of Scientific American where the hero was named т??Wang Tuт?? ... Naming a crater after Wan Hu т??the legendary Chinese inventorт?? was proposed shortly after the Soviet probe Zond 3 flew past the Moon in July 1965 returning images of the Moon?s western farside. ...

... Our tours this year include: Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Bauman Moscow State Technical University Orevo Laboratory, Russian Mission Control Center (TsUP), Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Lavochkin Scientific and Industrial Association, Energomash Scientific and Industrial Association, Scientific and Industrial Association "Zvezda", Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Monino Air Force Museum. Bauman Moscow State Technical University . Moscow) . ...

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): . ...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

... Space flight . ... Space Hotel . ... Small orbital stations (SOS) are intended for the arrangement of flexible manned programs on commercial basis with the possibility of using the traditional Russian manned , cargo spacecrafts, their modifications and new modules oriented for the minimum costs and terms of orbital objects development . оThe principle of SOS building is as follows: it is developed not as a separate self-sufficient project of an ... It means a possibility of: . ...

... 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) . ...

NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: Frank H. Samonski O RAL H ISTORY: 30 December 2002 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1959 NASA INVOLVEMENT: NASA Space Task Group, Langley Field, Virginia · Research Engineer (Aeronautical Instrumentation), Flight Systems Division (1959-1961) · Aerospace Technologist, ... Collier, Frank, with Frank H. Samonski and Robert E. Smylie. ...

New Images Hint at Wet and Wild History For Europa . Chunky ice rafts and relatively smooth, crater-free patches on the surface of Jupiter's frozen moon Europa suggest a younger, thinner icy surface than previously believed, according to new images from Galileo's spacecraft released today. ... These features, which lend credence to the idea of hidden, subsurface oceans, also are stirring up controversy among scientists who disagree about the age of Europa's surface. ... Europa . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... A Day or "Sol" on Mars is only 40 minutes longer than an Earth day - and Pathfinder's first day on Mars, Sol 1 according to its local calendar, was an eventful one. ... Pathfinder on Mars . ... Yesterday, July 4th, using its own array of fireworks, a parachute, and a cocoon of airbags, the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft successfully bounced and came to rest on the surface of Mars at 10:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time. ... Asteroid 253 Mathilde's Large Craters . ...

... 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. ...

... RSC Energy General Designer . ... The possibility of continuing the exploitation of the complex in the conditions of the inevitable obsolescence and depreciation of the on-board equipment providing the achievement of the necessary level of safety has been one of the most important and always controlled problems during all the term of exploitation of the complex Mir. ... The technical condition of the complex Mir gives the opportunity to continue its exploitation in a piloted mode till 2002 and more....

Space Scientific and Education project of Lomonosov Moscow State University "MSU-250" is timed to its 250-th annversary. ... Scientific program is directed to the studies of the space physics problems. It includes development and launch of two supersmall satellites intended mainly to the studies of the radiation conditions in the near-Earth space. ... The conference "University Satellites and Space Science Education" (UNIVERSAT-2006) was held in Moscow on June 26-30, 2006. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. July 6, 1997 . A Martian Day's End . Credit: IMP Team , JPL , NASA . Explanation: A Day or "Sol" on Mars is only 40 minutes longer than an Earth day - and Pathfinder's first day on Mars, Sol 1 according to its local calendar, was an eventful one . ... The petal holding the undeployed robot rover Sojourner is at the left. ...

Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ... Sojourner" on Mars, its top . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Do the magnetic fields of the planets affect spacecraft during flybys? ... Yes, a spacecraft that has a net charge will feel an effect due to the Lorentz force while moving through a planet s magnetic field. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email...

... All the service systems of SC "Spectra-R", (deployment of the antenna, its fixation, switching on of the onboard H-maser, pointing of the sharp directional antenna to Puschino TS) are checking. July, 23rd, 2011 -- deployment and fixation of the SRT antenna is done. July, 25th, 2011-- detenting of a VIRK sharp directional antenna drive is done. ... August 13th ­ a highly directive antenna pointing of a high informational channel (VIRK) on the Puschino TS antenna was switched on. ...

... Each document which is or can be circulated outside DMD division has to be issued according to the following Technical Archive procedure. ... Identify the type of document according to the ESO Documentation Type definition list . ... Get the chronological four-digit number from Technical Archive (pday@eso.org phone 6462 or tecarch@eso.org), specifying: the document type, PSC, document title, author(s), issue and issue date. ... ESO document number (i.e. VLT-SPE-ESO-19100-1836). ... issue number . ...