... CORONAS-PHOTON testing in the Mirny sity (2009 January) . Best images of the SOHO spacecraft . Best images of the TRACE spacecraft . ... CORONAS-PHOTON spacecraft docking with the rocket Cyclon . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

any view or statement made on this page is not part of an official standpoint of ESO) . ... Reports ] [ Image Gallery ] . ... Cryostats . Overview ] [ Image Gallery ] . ... of liquid nitrogen cooled CCD cryostats . ... ultraclean cryostats . ... for ultraclean cryostats . ... 2013 ] [ 2012 ] . ... Xmas DESY 2012 ] [ Xmas TMI 2012 ] . Isar Party 2012 ] [ Isar Party 2011 ] [ Isar Party 2009 ] . ... Image Gallery ] . ... Image Gallery ] [ Essay ] . My Favourite Book . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... By admin January 21, 2011 Posted in: Robot Exploration . A UFO hovers in the Martian sky (Image credit:NASA/JPL) . The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity is too heavy to slam into the rocky plains of Mars encased in airbags like its predecessors, so this imaginative and complex system was devised instead. ... Is there a video anywhere on the internet of a test of the ?sky crane? rockets? ...

... Cassini Images The Moon . ... On August 18, the Cassini spacecraft flew by the Earth and Moon, then continued on its way to the outer solar system. Near its closest approach to the Moon, a distance of about 377,000 kilometers, controllers tested Cassini's imaging systems on this most familiar celestial body. ... Water Found in Space Rock . ... Nearly four kilometers across, the huge rock known as 1999 JM8 silently passed only 8.5 million kilometers from the Earth in early August. ... August . ...

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. ...

... HST . ... Data . ... HST Peer Review Process . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Phase I Proposing . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . Cycle 23 Results . ... Mid Cycle Submission . ... Phase II Cycle 23 . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... Data Analysis . ... HST Science Year in Review . ... Phase I . ... Data Handbook . ... Take a look at the EMI Test Photo Gallery to see images from the NCC and NICMOS flight spare detector EMI test. ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . Space Shuttle . ... Maneuvering through space and circling the Earth 36 times, astronauts John Young, commander, and Robert Crippen, pilot, tested its systems, then landed like an airplane on schedule two days, six hours, 20 minutes and 52 seconds later. ... While the shuttle system was something new and different, development could now draw upon a reservoir of aerospace technology, which was virtually nonexistent a decade earlier. ...

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... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des reportages . ... les plus belles images de l'Univers d–їcrypt–їes pour vous . ... Accueil Eclipse partielle de Soleil –Љ lвАЩhorizon . ... C'est ce qu'on appelle une –їclipse de Soleil . ... Pour avoir tous les horaires pr–їcis et la portion de Soleil –їclips–їe en fonction de la ville dans laquelle vous vous trouvez, vous pouvez consulter l'article d' Emmanuel Beaudoin consacr–ї –Љ l'–їv–їnement dans Ciel et Espace de janvier 2011...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . ... ISS 45/46 . ... Rocket Space Complexes . ... Land Launch . Automatic Space Systems . ... Bus Module . ... Zarya Module . ... reduction of Descent Module speeds by 40-50% of nominal values and by 30-40% of maximal values at ground touchdown for all estimated landing cases; . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... The question which method of the detection of features in the test statistic is the most sensitive, is of considerable importance for all practical TSA applications. ... A power of the test statistic is the probability that is accepted for the given Y : . ... Then, all statistics based on models with 3 parameters have similar values of the test power: power spectrum, Scargle statistics, fit of a sinusoid, AOV(3) statistic and PDM(3) statistic with corrected probability distribution. ...

... Home Gallery Observing Events 2012 Transit of Venus Tale-of-2-Transits, 2012 Annular Eclipse and Transit of Venus . ... 2012 Annular Solar Eclipse by Stan Honda . ... History of the Transit of Venus - prelude to the June 5th, 2012 Transit of Venus. ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... Events . ... Unfortunately there are no eclipses to be seen from Ireland this month: neither the lunar one on 7 July, nor the solar one on 22 July. Next lunar eclipses visible from Ireland are the partial ones on 5/6 August 2009 (very hard to see with naked eye; 23:01:04 UT to 02:17:23 UT) and 31 December 2009 ( penumbral phase should be quite visible; 18:51:38 UT to 19:53:51 UT) . ... Friday, 3 July 2009 17:12 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... The plots show the az,za and ra,dec positions of the telescope during the test (.ps) ( .pdf ): . Page 1: az,za positions during the test . ... A datafile is also included for each day giving the measured ao positions for each day (utcSec, ra,dec of date). 16aug09 plots of telescope postion(.ps) ( .pdf ). Datafile of telescope position . ... cal on/off samples averaged to 1 seconds (.ps) ( .pdf ) . ... The first set of plots shows the cal on/off samples averaged to 1 seconds (.ps) ( .pdf ): . ...

... It is notoriously difficult to identify weak cosmic ray events in long exposure observations. ... The method is to compare the probability distribution function (PDF) of cosmic ray events between an observation and a dark frame matched in exposure time. We illustrate the basic idea using dark exposures from a Tek 1024 1024 CCD with varying exposure lengths and read-out times. ... Figure: Histogram of cosmic ray events in a two hour dark frame. ... Original PostScript figure (78 kB) . ...

Test of Engineering model of Spacecraft and scientific payload was performed at Lavochkin Association on Nov. ... The connection test with Engineering model of Radio Complex (MRK) was performed. The results of tests are being currently checked by experimental teams and service systems specialists. BIUS Engineering model. Spacecraft MRK Engineering model overall view. MRK Engineering model; transmitter-receiver part. ... Last updated Nov. 9, 1999 by WebMaster, gita@hea.iki.rssi.ru . ...

Natural Satellites Service. ... Mutual occultations and eclipses . of the major satellites of Uranus . ... We present the ephemerides and circumstances of the mutual occultations and eclipses of the major Uranian satellites in 2006-2010. ... In 2006-2010 about 190 mutual occultations and eclipses will occur. ... The ephemerides of the mutual occultations and eclipses of the major satellites of Uranus in 2006-2010 are presented in four tables according to four periods of visibility of Uranus. ...

... at the ISSP RAS. ... MSU student Kostretsova N.B. successfully defended her thesis entitled "Investigation of Thermal and Chemial Expansivity of Ceria-Based Solid Solutions". ... V.A. Kolotygin successfully defended his PhD thesis "Perovskite-Like Oxide and Composite Anode Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Functional Properties and Electrochemical Behavior in Contact with Gallate- and Silicate-Based Solid Electrolytes" and was awarded PhD degree in the area of Materials Science and Engineering ....

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... Use of microsatellite technology in aerospace education by the example of BAUMANETS microsatellite project . ... Launch is scheduled for March 2006. ... Over 20 students graduated from BMSTU and found work in leading Russia s and international aerospace companies. ... Meanwhile, modern labor market in aerospace shows increasing requirements towards quality of university education. ...