... Recent milestones in the Webb project include final delivery of all four science instruments to the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). ... The instruments have become part of the Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) and are undergoing a series of cryogenic vacuum testing there. ... Once the ISIM tests at Goddard are completed, the next testing step involving the instruments is to integrate the ISIM with the mirror components and test the Optical Telescope Element and Integrated Science (OTIS...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... News . ... RSC Energia is the prime manned space flight organization in the Russian rocket and space industry, responsible for the development of the ISS Russian Segment, its integration into the Space Station and its operation, including development and operation of the principal modules of the Segment (Zvezda, Pirs, Poisk, Rassvet, Nauka etc.), manufacturing, launch and operation of Soyuz TMA and Progress M...

The construction of NIFS is progressing well with preparations in hand for the next two cooldowns. The detailed design of all the NIFS mechanisms has been completed and the mechanisms are under construction. ... The NIFS OIWFS filter/aperture wheel and OIWFS gimbal mechanism have been manufactured by the University of Hawaii and delivered to the Australian National University. ... Vinko Medic polishing the OIWFS optable in preparation for cold-testing the NIFS mechanisms in the cryostat. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > Instrumentation Development . ... Science Users Information . ... La Silla Paranal Observatory . ... Paranal Instrumentation . Decommissioned Instruments . ... VLT/VLTI Science Verification . ... ESO exercises strict control over the interfaces between the VLT observatory and its instruments. ... The instruments below are now maintained (and documented on the ESO web) by the Directorate of Operations/La Silla Paranal Observatory: . ...

... 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 ...

... Space Research Institute . ... Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences . ... Short history of IKI with respect to it's directors and main missions . ... Main results . ... Venue: Space Research Institute and Russian Academy of Sciences . ... The interview with the director of Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Academician Lev M. Zelenyi . ... Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI), 84/32 Profsoyuznaya Str, Moscow, Russia, 117997...

Operating of the superconducting integrated receiver channel of the TELIS atmospheric sounder. ... The noise temperature of the SIR was measured to be as low as 120 K, with an intermediate frequency band of 4 ­ 8 GHz in double sideband operation; the spectral resolution is well below 1 MHz. The SIR was implemented in the three-channel balloon-borne instrument TELIS (TErahertz and submillimeter LImb Sounder) that detects spectral emission lines of stratospheric trace gases (like ClO and BrO). ...

ATNF engineering research programs focus on developing, and applying, new technology and advanced design techniques to radio astronomy and allied fields. ... There are three groups within the ATNF engineering structure: . ... This project, designed to allow rapid alternation between radio astronomy and spacecraft tracking modes, was undertaken in collaboration with outside consultants and received an honourable mention in the the 1997 Institution of Engineers (Australia) awards program. ...

... -instrument capability: manual at first; heading toward multi-port fast change capability [got it] Excellent pointing and tracking: 1 arcsec goal; can usually point to within ~few arcsec [or better] Excellent delivered image quality: 0.5 arcsec goal; often subarcsecond, but still feel we could improve about .3 arcsec [median seeing still about 1 arcsec ] Full suite of science instruments : Got them, upgraded them, have plans and paths to replace aging ...

... Pre-university education . ... Facilities and equipment . ... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Contacts . ... The scientists of Samara State Aerospace University have completed dynamic tests of the first Russian university nanosatellite SamSat-218D created by SSAU students. ... It has already passed the whole set of tests and transferred to the Rocket and Space Centre Progress . ... The whole test cycle of the nanosatellite SamSat-218D (Module Contact-Nanosatellite") will be completed in July. ...

... After delivery of all engineering models and SRT test sets to LA main ASC activities were moved to LA as well. ... Special attention was paid to the problem of tests on the electromagnetic compatibility between service and scientific on-board payload. ... The SRT was attached to special supporting frame, and LNA cooling system (NSOTR) was installed on the Focal Container. ... FC Focal Container - hermetic package with the scientific payload; it contains receivers, . ... TVT Thermo-Vacuum Tests . ...

... We have developed an integrated system that performs astronomical observations in Near Infrared bands operating two-dimensional instruments at the Italian National Infrared Facility's ARNICA and LONGSP . ... The user interface is organized as widget-based X11 client. ... 1993; Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ... Moreover, if the interprocess communication interface includes support for networking, the software immediately becomes network distributed software. ... DESQview/X User Guide 1993, Quarterdeck . ...

OptInt PmWiki . ... Science Instrument Downselect . ... Page History | ... PmWiki . ... PmWiki FAQ . ... pmwiki.org . ... Return to Science Instrument Downselect ( Edit ) . ... Proc. SPIE paper on downselect . ... March 09, 2007, at 05:30 PM by John Young - Status from 2006/10/12 update (see attachment) . ... Complete . ... P4S combiner optimization . ... P4S switchyard optimization . ... P8 combiner optimization . ... P8 (internal) switchyard optimization . ... Due 2006/07/31 . ... Due Date . ...

Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, . Moscow, Russia . Supernovae make us brighter .. Search russian astronomical resources . Mirror of International Supernovae Network ( Original site ) . Catalogue of Supernovae Stars . HTTP access to SAI Catalogue of Supernovae Stars . SAI SN Light Curves Online . ... Sternberg Astronomical Institute ( in Russian ) . ... Astronet - Russian Astronomical Network . ... Russian Foundation for Basic Research . ...

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): . ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... NASA lunar spacecraft complete prime mission ahead of schedule . ... An artist's depiction of the twin spacecraft that comprise NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. ... A NASA mission to study the Moon from crust to core has completed its prime mission earlier than expected. ... The spacecraft returned their last data set of the prime mission Tuesday. ... The spacecraft will have to endure a lunar eclipse on June 4. ...

... NASA's newest Great Observatory, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) -- formally known as the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) -- launched on July 23, 1999 and represents such an advance. ... Hughes Danbury Optical Systems (HDOS), now Raytheon Optical Systems Incorporated, figured and polished the x-ray optics; Optical Coating Laboratory Incorporated (OCLI) coated the polished optics with iridium; and Eastman Kodak Company (EKC) mounted and aligned the optics and provided the optical...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Antenna system . ... The Irkutsk incoherent scatter radar is one of the world's nine active radars which give the opportunity to investigate ionosphere by the incoherent scatter method. ... Antenna gain coefficient . ... Antenna . ... Two antennas . ... To get an idea what station "Dnepr" antenna system looks like, let us consider some of the radar views which are given by the photographs General view and Side view . ...

... Research of an atmosphere of the Earth and other planets of Solar system by optical methods . ... The long-term experience of study of atmospheres of planets of Solar system in a department of physics of planets has defined directions and methods of researches spent for laboratory . ... The tasks of laboratory are researches by optical methods of structure of a Terrestrial atmosphere, namely study of spectra of absorption of its compound radiation of natural and artificial sources. ...

... Gondoin et al. paper submitted to SPIE 2000 (in PostScript) . ... In-flight calibration of the XMM-Newton Reflection Grating Spectrometers . ... Calibration of the first XMM Flight Mirror Module: I. - Image Quality . ... CCDs in X-ray Astronomy . ... X-ray performance of a qualification model of an XMM mirror module, pp.390-401 (Philippe Gondoin et al) . ... Reflection grating arrays for the Reflection Grating Spectrometer on board XMM, pp.450-462 (Steven M Kahn et al) . ... 1995) . ... Gondoin Ph.,...