... Engineering experiments aimed at testing and developing engineering solutions for a future interplanetary vehicle were a prominent activity during missions of Salyut and Mir space stations. ... In October 1998, cosmonauts placed on the outside surface of Mir space station some samples of film-type solar array, which constitutes a key element of the Martian vehicle, in order to study how they are affected by actual space environments. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... AMPLE (Adaptable Minor Planet Ephemerides) is integrated software package to deal with a number of problems concerning minor planets with the aid of IBM-type personal computer. ... compiling a list of all numbered minor planets which can be seen at certain moment within specified sky region and visualization of their mutual positions; . ... As AMPLE is able to reproduce virtually any table of "the Ephemerides of Minor Planets" , it may be considered as computer version of the EMP. ...

... CORBA Client/server architecture needs tools to manage communication between the different components. ... A CORBA class is defined by its interface, specifying in the Interface Data Language (IDL), the methods, their parameters and return values to be used on the client side and to be implemented on the server side. ... 214 Wenger and Frisґ ee IDL file (CORBA class description) IDL compilation Client code STUB code SKELETON code CORBA class implementation Server Client server code Figure 1. ...

Research Activities . Integrated superconducting submm receivers and spectrometers. Technology for fabrication of superconducting integrated circuits based on high quality submicron Nb and NbN tunnel junctions with high current density. Development, study and optimization of the superconducting phase locked Local Oscillator for integrated spectrometer. ... Development of the superconducting elements for operation at frequencies up to 1 THz. ... Activities | ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...

... AstroGrid Registry . ... 1.DB client and WebDav . ... If you are using the recommended xml database eXist (which also is bundled up with the registry). ... Also it supports WebDav which allows you to connect various Applications like XMLSpy or Oxygen as well as your typical File Manager normally support WebDav meaning you can view the whole database just like any other network drive on your system. ... ex: http://software.astrogrid.org/schema/vo-resource-types/VOResource/v1.0/VOResource.xsd . ...

. Computer Ephemeris. Elements of osculating planetary orbits. Explanations. Each row contains at 0h of Time Dynamical Terrestrial of specified date in system of mean equator and ecliptic J2000.0 the ecliptic osculating elements of heliocentric orbit: inclination of orbital plane (degrees), longitude of ascending node (degrees), argument of perigelion (degrees), semimajor axis (astronomical units), mean motion (degrees per day), eccentricity (dimensionless), mean anomaly (degrees).

SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUTE Reducing Cost of Ops Miller Krueger 7-8 May 1997 Techniques used to Reduce Cost and Improve Quality for Hubble Space Telescope Science Operations Glenn Miller and Tony Krueger Space Telescope Science Institute Baltimore, MD 9/4/97 SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUTE Reducing ... STScI has encouraged a culture of continuous improvement and innovation to improve user service and reduce costs. ...

... 2011 September 7 . SDSS J102915+172927: A Star That Should Not Exist . ... Explanation: Why does this star have so few heavy elements? Stars born in the generation of our Sun have an expected abundance of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium mixed into their atmospheres. Stars born in the generation before our Sun, Population II stars , the stars that created most of the heavy elements around us today, are seen to have some, although fewer, elements heavier than H and He. ...

... Developments and challenges · CABB · · · · · · · miriad Addition of the 7mm band Spacecraft tracking with the ATCA New 13mm receiver for Parkes Final version of the Digital Filter Bank at Parkes Remote operation of ATNF telescopes eVLBI ATNF 2012 ATNF 2012 Operations 2007-2012 2007 2008 2009 NASA tracking 2010 2011 2012 7mm 13mm CABB 12m Test bed MIRA-6 MIRANdA Review Plan Implement 4 ATNF observatories ... There must be a cost to changing our operations. ...

... Archives . ... Discontinuation of weekly [arXiv] series . ... For a discipline that relies so heavily on images, it is rather surprising how little use astronomy makes of the vast body of work on image analysis carried out by mathematicians and computer scientists. ... images. ... Images may be Opened and Closed with different structure elements. ... Tags: close , dilate , EotW , Equation , Equation of the Week , erode , Morphological operator , open , set theory . Category: Imaging , Jargon | ...

... The accuracy of calculation of both INTERBALL spacecraft (SC) motion has been estimated at the IKI. ... The 30 days measuring intervals were used during the Tail probe (TP) orbital data treatment, and 15 days intervals - during the Auroral probe (AP) orbit determination. ... http://www.iki.rssi.ru/vprokhor/indap.htm for the Auroral probe; . http://www.iki.rssi.ru/vprokhor/indtp.htm for the Tail probe . ... http://www.iki.rssi.ru/vprokhor/ssc.htm , or http://www.iki.rssi.ru/vprokhor/amisan.htm . ...

The original files with the data were in different formats. ... Such files were named "standard data files" and linked to the database. They can be easily transformed to any desirable format by a code. Here we present two simple computer programs of this kind. ... When running the code, you can specify columns in the output file: wavelength, energy (eV) or wavenumber (cm -1 ) as the first column, and complex refractive index or dielectric function as the second and third columns. ...

... Decide, for each DFS component (GUI, process, ...), what will be delivered for the next commissioning : . list of main new features / functionalities / performances requirements to be developed. list of existing features / functionalities / performances requirements to be maintained. list of existing Problems Reports (existing operational bugs and change requests) to be included in the next DFS delivery. table describing, for each UT and each DFS component, the main new features to be installed. ...

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

Distributed Software for Observations in Near Infrared V. Gavryusev 1 and C. Baffa Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri E. Giani Dipartamento di Astronomia, Universit`a di Firenze Abstract. ... The processes denoted for control of hardware (telescope and other instruments) should be executed currently on PC dedicated for this task under DESQview/X, while all other components (user interface, tools for the data analysis, etc.) can work also under Unix. ... 1993, Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ...

The ALFA Pulsar Survey has discovered and confirmed 38 new pulsars to date. ... This program, developed by Duncan Lorimer and David Champion, searches for new pulsars in real time. ... The P-ALFA consortium plans to reduce all the data using its full frequency and time resolution, a far more computer-intensive job. ... From the confirmation and timing observations made to date, it is clear that this millisecond pulsar (MSP) is in a binary system with an orbital period of several hundred days. ...

Next: Mission Element Points-of-Contact . Previous: Mission Operations Data Transfer . ... Each mission element should ensure that their contact information remains current and notify the RSOG of any changes. ... Non-RSOG mission elements will also use the "dit" list to notify the RSOG (and all other mission elements) of unexpected events that may impact operations elsewhere, e.g., if a tracking station discovers that the spacecraft is in an unexpected configuration. ...

... J102815: A Star That Should Not Exist . ... Stars born in the generation before our Sun, Population II stars , the stars that created most of the heavy elements around us today, are seen to have some, although less, elements heavier than H and He. Furthermore, even the elusive never-seen first stars in the universe, so-called Population III stars, are predicted to have a large mass and a small but set amount of heavy elements. ... Publications with keywords: star - lithium - Population III . ...

... An Archival System for Observational Data Obtained at the Okayama and Kiso Observatories. ... MOKA3 consists of three parts: 1) a distributed database system which manages the obser­ vational data archive of Okayama and Kiso observatories, 2) a Web­based data search and request system, and 3) a delivery system for requested data. ... The data flow of MOKA3 is shown in Figure 1. ... Distributed Database System The following three kinds of data files are managed in the MOKA3 distributed database...