... Jay Apt (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Apt shared his images and knowledge in the publication Earth in Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth , written in conjunction with NASA scientists Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson and published by the National Geographic Society. ... From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, Harvard University, supporting NASA s Pioneer Venus Mission by making temperature maps of Venus from Mt. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

... Volodymyr Kuzkov, Sergii Kuzkov, Zoran Sodnik - Direct measurements of laser light aberration from the ARTEMIS geostationary satellite through thin clouds // arXiv.org - New resalts to paper at Conference ICSOS-2014, Kobe, Japan, May 7-9 (2014), S4-4, [view pdf file] . ... Kuz'kov V., Volovyk D., Kuzkov S., Sodnik Z., Pukha S. - Realization of Laser Experiments with ESA'S Geostationary Satellite ARTEMIS. ... Preparation to Optical Communication Experiments With ARTEMIS Satellite. ... V.P. Kuz`kov. ...

... A Dark Earth with a Red Sprite . ... Credit Copyright: ISS, Expedition 31 Crew , NASA Explanation: There is something very unusual in this picture of the Earth -- can you find it? ... The featured image was taken from the orbiting International Space Station (ISS) in late April and shows familiar ISS solar panels on the far left and part of a robotic arm to the far right. ... Publications with keywords: international space station . Publications with words: international space station . ...

... The one year crew. (image credit: NASA/Bill Stafford) . The тАЬOne Year CrewтАЭ has specific objectives to their mission all in a bid to find out if the human body and mind is capable of long missions to an asteroid, back to the Moon or even to Mars in the future. ... On-board the Russian space station Mir four cosmonauts clocked up more than a year in space in the 1980s and 1990s.€а (1942-) has the record for the longest single space flight of 437 days or 14 months in space in 1995. ...

... Kepler's 3rd Law . 21a.Applying 3rd Law . 21b. Fly to Mars! (1) . 21c. Fly to Mars! (2) . ... For circular orbits around Earth, we found . ... The distance of a satellite from the center of Earth in meters is an inconveniently big number, even before we raise it to the 3rd power. ... The ratio r' = (r / R E ) is the orbital distance measured in units of the Earth's radius. ... 25 638 838) = 5063.5 From this . ... This is the practical form of Kepler's 3rd law for Earth satellites. ...

... November 26, 2001 at 21:24:12 Moscow time the Progress M1-7 transport cargo vehicle with Colibri microsatellite (MS) accommodated in the payload compartment was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome to the near-earth orbit in compliance with the International Space Station (ISS) flight program. ... According to the ballistic analysis made by S.P. Korolev RSC Energia specialists, MS will make an atmospheric re-entry and be destroyed on 3-4 May 2002. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... September 27, 1996 . Welcome Home Shannon Lucid . Credit: STS-79 , Space Station Mir , NASA . Explanation : Today is Shannon Lucid's first day on Planet Earth in six months. Her stay aboard Russia's Mir Space Station was of record length - the longest stay of any American in space ever. ... Pictured above , Lucid greets the astronaut that will replace her on Mir , John Blaha . Tomorrow's picture: A Soyuz at Mir . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

For circular orbits around Earth, we found . ... The distance of a satellite from the center of Earth in meters is an inconveniently big number, even before we raise it to the 3rd power. ... SQRT (25 638 838) = 5063.5 From this . ... T= 5063.5 seconds SQRT(r') 3 = 5063 sec r'SQRT=(r') . This is the practical form of Kepler's 3rd law for Earth satellites. ... International communication satellites are in the equatorial plane of the Earth and have orbits with a 24-hour period. ...

... The Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS), the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation (MINCOMSVYAZ), Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology (ROSSTANDART), Federal Service for State Registration , Cadaster and Cartography (ROSREESTR), Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences on PNT problem and the ... Ipatov А. V. (Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS) ? ...

... Samara State Aerospace University Staff Buri Mukesh-singkh . ... River, Eastern Siberia) 2015-2016. ... Sensing, Russia 2015-2016. ... The Remote Sensing's & the GIS, Vulnerability & the Risk Assessment, the Digital Image the Processing, the Thermal & the Microwave the remote sensing, . ... of Applied Remote Sensing SPIE, Reviewer (ISSN 1931-3195), Bellingham, . ... Kovelskiy Viktor , Boori Mukesh Singh Kuala Lumpur City Growth Study through Remote Sensing and GIS // Journal of Remote Sensing GIS. ...

... Research . ... Institute of Solid State Physics of Russian Academy of Science . ... Web-page: http://issp3.issp.ac.ru/lsr/kudrenko.html . ... 2007-till now - Research fellow at the Laboratory of Structural Research, Institute of Solid State Physics RAS . ... I.M. Shmyt'ko, E.A. Kudrenko, V.V. Sinitsyn, B.S. Red'kin and E.G. Ponyatovskii, - Structural aspects of solid state amorphization in Eu 2 (MoO 4 ) 3 single crystals' Physics of the Solid State, vol.49, No5, pp.941-948, (2007). ... LSR ISSP RAS ...

... In spite of the good potential possibilities, some of the station "Dnepr" design characteristics did not allow us to apply the usual special IS radar measurement methods. ... Thus for IS signal measurements at the "Dnepr" station, we have developed special methods for recording and processing IS signals in order to determine plasma ionospheric parameters. ... Equations (4-5) from the basis for data post processing to obtain ionosphere parameters. ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... ISC Kosmotras announces signing of a launch contract with T B?TAK Space Technologies Research Institute (T B?TAK UZAY) for injection of RASAT spacecraft - the first Earth observation satellite designed and manufactured in Turkey by Dnepr LV in 2010. ... Dnepr LV Performance . ...

... Organized by the St Petersburg branch of the V.A. Steklov Mathematics Institute and the Euler Institute (St Petersburg), Laboratoire J.-V. Poncelet , Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( Kharkevich Institute , Moscow), and the St Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics ( University ITMO ). ... International workshop Optimization and stochastic methods for spatially distributed information . ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Staff list | Student list | Visitor list . ... Publications overview . ... Email discussion lists . ... Careers overview . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Technology overview . ... Virtual Radio Interferometer . ... Call for Papers - 'Empowering Research Communities' . ...

... Then in 1959 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration asked the United States military services to list their members who met specific qualifications. The search was underway for pilots for the exciting new manned space flight program. In seeking its first space pilots, NASA emphasized jet aircraft flight experience and engineering training, and it tailored physical stature requirements to the small cabin space available in the Mercury capsule then being designed. ...

... xmmtrack . ... xmmtrack is an interactive IDL application that visualizes the orbit and attitude data in an ODF in the form of a 3-D animation sequence. The presented scenery includes an astronomically accurate simulation of the Earth-Sun system plus the actual and predicted trajectory of the XMM satellite on its path around the Earth. ... Please note: XMM's orbit is highly time variable and the predicted orbit will significantly deviate from the actual trajectory if the reference epochs differ. ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

... In a report on a recent information technology conference at Columbia University (Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 January 1998, p. A25), questions are raised with respect to the efficacy of computers in the classroom. ... The Summer Science Program is once again being held at The Thacher School in Ojai, California. ... The Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Education in Astronomy announces the Mount Wilson Summer Program for Undergraduates, August 12-25, 1998. ...