The efficiency of interaction of radiation with a particle and hence its optical properties depend on the particle chemical composition, size, shape, structure, etc. ... Particle size expressed in units of the wavelength of incident radiation, together with chemical composition, most strongly affects the optical properties of a scatterer. ... There are many methods to solve the light-scattering problem for a homogeneous spheroid (our survey of the light-scattering methods see here ). ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Development of Organizational Structure . Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . Rocket Systems . Flights Chronology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Sea Launch . ... of the Energia-Buran Space System . ... Among problems solved while developing the Energia-Buran Reusable Space System were: . ... Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ...

RSAA Home . GSAOI Home . ... Other Links . ... Control Software Links . Optics Links . Micro-Optics Links . ... Optical Materials Databases . ... Rockwell Science Center home page . ... Santa Barbara Research Center home page . ... CCD-World home page . ... SDSU home page . ... EPICS home page . ... Optics Society of America . SPIE - Society for Optical Engineering . ... ZEMAX software (Focus Software page) . OPTICAD software (Focus Software page) . ... RedHat home page . ...

TOOLS OF TEST GENERATION FOR SATELLITES CONTROL PROGRAMS Andrey Tyugashev, Ekaterina Myasnikova, Elena Sopchenko S.P. Korolyov Samara State Aerospace University (National Reseach University) The paper presents a research in the field of test automation for testing spacecraft control programs. ... Programmers or designers of spacecraft systems write tests manually. ... Tests are carried out by issuing the control actions on the spacecraft and condition monitoring systems parameters of the spacecraft. ...

... The MIDAS Data Organizer, a customizable utility to analyze and identify associations in a database of astronomical observations, is described. ... On-line Data Reduction: . ... The main characteristics of the on-line implementation of the DO at the ESO New Technology Telescope (NTT) are described below. The database for all operations is a MIDAS (ESO-IPG 1993) table, the so-called Observation Summary Table (OST) which contains all relevant parameters extracted from the FITS keywords. ...

... 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. ...

As it was already mentioned, the idea behind File Juggler is rather simple: using CGI scripts as processing tools and WWW browser as user interface, display the structure and content of typical anonymous FTP server in a convenient, easily navigated form. ... My P5-133 spends about 0.025 ms on one file when doing linear search with simple criterion (690 ms for 27,000 files, search for substring among file names/descriptions with 70 hits). ... Let's now look whether we can handle 1,000,000 files. ...

... Subject and Problems of Stellar Astronomy. ... Plane of Galaxy, Methods of Its Location Determination. ... Stars Distances. ... Other Methods of Stars Distances Determination. ... Tangential Velocities, Their Determination by Self-Motions. ... Determination of Solar Apex and Spatial Velocity by Radial and Spatial Velocities of Stars. ... Features of Orientation and Parameters of Peculiar Stellar Velocities Ellipsoid. ... General and Selective Light Absorption in Galaxy. ... Darc Clouds in Galaxy. ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

Data in GIPSY is stored in so called sets . A set consists of two components: an image component and a descriptor component. These components are stored in separate files, but in GIPSY they are always used together. The image data is stored in a `crystalline' structure with a virtually unlimited (up to 20) number of dimensions. ... Within a set subsets can be defined. ... The figure below shows the possible subset types in a three-dimensional set, a `` cube '': . ...

Text of these problems is available also in other languages : . ... What can one see in the Moon's sky more often - the Sun or the Earth? ... There are about of 250 millions of stars in the elliptical galaxy M32 (a satellite of Andromeda galaxy). ... The masses of Capella's components. ... You are proposed to estimate the masses of Capella's components, using our observational data. ... A galaxy's mass. ... Estimate the mass of FGC 1908 and compare it to the mass of our galaxy. ...

... For example, mkcomptab hstcomp.tab The output le is component lookup table. This table is used by the synphot software and associated a component mnemonic with the name of the throughput table containing the component throughput. ... CDBS SERVER sets the database server the task accesses. ... Mkcomptab calls init comptab to create an empty component lookup table, comptab query to ll the table from the CDBS database, and update comp to