Status of EPIC Operations Pedro CalderСn RiaЯo Mallorca 31-March-2009 XMM-Newton Overview · · · · · Routine operations New DB items Nominal OCR operations Not nominal events AOB's XMM-Newton SOC Operations Support Group Pedro CalderСn RiaЯo 31 March 2009 Pag. ... And, of course, a lot of nominal observations performed XMM-Newton SOC Operations Support Group Pedro CalderСn RiaЯo 31 March 2009 Pag. ... XMM-Newton SOC Operations Support Group Pedro CalderСn RiaЯo 31 March 2009 Pag. ...

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). ...

... Required qualifications: BS in Electronics Engineering. ... Required qualifications: BS in Electronics Engineering or Electronics Technology field with three to five years experience in operation, calibration and maintenance of high-voltage equipment or equivalent combination. Supervisory experience required. ... Required qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, with more than five but less than seven years experience or equivalent combination. ...

... The science data that an observer receives are calibrated in the pipeline by at least one, and possibly two, STSDAS calibration routines: calnica and calnicb . ... Calnicb is applied to the calibrated science data files (output from calnica ), and requires association tables and the *_spt.fits files. ... Grism data are processed with separate calibration software, calnicc , which performs a series of steps that identify and extract spectra from the images. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... NORMAN E. THAGARD (M.D.) . NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . PERSONAL DATA: Born July 3, 1943, in Marianna, Florida, but considers Jacksonville, Florida, to be his hometown. ... Dr. Thagard first flew on the crew of STS-7, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 8, 1983. ... Dr. Thagard then flew on STS 51-B, the Spacelab-3 science mission, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on April 29, 1985, aboard the Challenger. ...

Next: Command Overview Up: Table File System Previous: Interactive Editing of . In this section we describe several of the mathematical operations that can be performed on table data. ... A set of histogram-related commands, with qualifier HISTOGRAM , allow the graphic display of the histogram of a column ( PLOT and OVERPLOT commands), the printout of histogram values ( READ and PRINT commands), or the generation of a 1D image with the histogram of a column (command COMPUTE/HISTOGRAM ). ...

... 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. ...

dfos = Data Flow Operations System, the common tool set for DFO make printable . Some parts of the daily workflow can be performed day by day in an automatic way. Let us recall the Table 1 from the simple model , now with the processing mode updated: . ... CALIB/SCIENCE . ... workflow steps 1-3 . ... day1 . ... day2 . ... createAB -m CALIB -d day1; createJob -m CALIB -d day1 . ... 4 : Mapping of the daily workflow into three working days for the optimized workflow. [1-3] is short for days1-3. ...

... A new technological vision on the future of the VLBI backend area let envision a fully digital implementation of what was until now performed in the analog domain. ... Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), radio astronomy, VLBI backend systems, VLBI backend area, domains transition point, radio observatories digital technology, data handling process, signal path, RFI and calibration effects, DSP algorithms, sensitivity of the observatories, global applications. ...

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... News | ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Facilities . ... Digital systems . ... Initial ground-based system tests have been run on the first full-size, second generation (Mk II) ASKAP phased array feed receiver at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia. ... With initial tests complete, the team will now analyse the results to generate an assessment of system performance before returning to the MRO to prepare for installation of the PAF on to an ASKAP antenna. ...

... The Zenit-3SLB ILV . ... LAND LAUNCH . ... o Financing of operations performed by OOO International Space Services Contractors. o Land Launch Program coordination and control. o Marketing activity on the SIS territory. ... Leading technical integrator for the Land Launch Complex (coordinator of OOO International Space Services Contractors operations for analytical integration of spacecraft with the Zenit-M SRC). ... Support of operations for SC analytical integration with AU, preformed by RSC...

... CURRICULUM VITAE . ... Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering - "Devices and Electronics Circuits" carried out at the Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunication of the University of Florence - ITALY. ... Degree Thesis title: ?A hybrid CMOS detector assessment study for the Solar Orbiter Space Mission? ... ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter Mission - METIS Coronagraph (METIS Processing and Power Unit - MPPU, front-end electronics and detectors, EGSE) - Co-Investigator . ... Front-end electronics, readout electronics ....

... Space flight . Crew training . ... honing the skills of performing the tasks of operating the orbital (suborbital) spaceship in a normal autonomous flight and in case of occurrence of off-optimum situations; . ... preparing for conducting visual observations, photographing and video filming envisaged by the flight program; . ... preparing the astronaut's body to the effect of space flight factors, honing the skills of operating the spaceborne medical facilities, rendering self and mutual aid; . ...

... The channel of digital data transmission can operate with the rate up to 40 Kbit/s and the channel of analog information makes it possible to transmit the data with the band width up to 60 KHz. ... The onboard data collecting unit, STS, is installed to collect the analog and digital information from the complex of scientific payload and from the subsatellite service systems. ... STS unit has the following features: . ... The following organizations took part in design of the data collecting system: ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Markup Expressions . ... The {(...)} "expression markup" allows for a variety of string and formatting operations to be performed from within markup. Operations defined by this recipe include substr , ftime , strlen , rand , toupper / tolower , ucfirst , ucwords , pagename and asspaced . ... Note that the initial position argument is zero-based (i.e., the first character is referenced via a "0"). the number of characters to extract . ... ftime "fmt" "when")} . ...

... 09.03.2001 . ... March 09 2001 09:00 (Moscow time) . The operations scheduled on OC "Mir" for March 8 are complete. The recent telemetry data confirmed that the complex remains pressurised, the thermal mode is normal, the onboard systems perform norminal. Enough electricity is generated to maintain the onboard systems operation and measure orbit parameters. The OC "Mir" onboard systems were checked out, orbit radio monitoring performed. Currently, the OC "Mir" is in free drift. ...

... Status of the ELECTRON experiment . ... The objective of the ELECTRON experiment is to perform 3-D measurements of the plasma electrons in the energy range from 10 eV to 26000 eV, with good angular resolution, sensitivity and large dynamical range. ... Figure 1 presents the ELECTRON sensor. ... Click on the picture to view large one) . ... Figure 3 shows dynamical spectra with counting rate measurements performed by ELECTRON experiment during very multiple magnetopause crossings on February, 4, 1996...

... BIK-01 digital channels . ... MSU-E (1) . ... MSU-E ( n ) - data from MSU-E instrument (channel number in brackets). ... In modes 708...712 (when both MSU-E scanners operate simlutaneously), video information from same spectral channels of both scanners is transmitted line-interlaced in single corresponding channel of BIK-01. ... 701 - all MSU-E channels, no MSU-SK data; . 703 - all MSU-E channels, MSU-SK channels 2 and 4 (line-interlaced); . 706 - all MSU-SK channels, no MSU-E data. ...

Free Space Optical Communication Systems . ... Airplane - geostationary satellite laser communication. ... Air ( space) optical communication systems ( AO ) . ... The Optical ground station was constructed at Teide observatory, Tenerife, Canary Islands for laser communication experiments from ground to geostationary (GEO) satellites. ... Laser communication experiments between ARTEMIS satellite and optical ground station (OGS) ESA at Canary Islands are performing also. ... CW laser test experiments . ...