The Wind spacecraft. ... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... For additional details and updates, see the home page of the "Wind" mission. Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . ...

... Routines for accessing I/O ports are in /usr/include/asm/io.h (or linux/include/asm-i386/io.h in the kernel source distribution). ... Before you access any ports, you must give your program permission to do so. This is done by calling the ioperm() function (declared in unistd.h , and defined in the kernel) somewhere near the start of your program (before any I/O port accesses). ... For example, ioperm(0x300, 5, 1) would give access to ports 0x300 through 0x304 (a total of 5 ports). ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . A Delta Rocket Launches . ... 12.07.1999 . ... Credit Copyright: KSC , NASA . Explanation: A Delta rocket is pictured launching NASA's FUSE satellite earlier this month. In use since 1960, Delta rockets have been launched successfully over 250 times . ... Delta rockets are manufactured for the US Air Force and NASA by Boeing . ... Publications with keywords: rocket - FUSE . Publications with words: rocket - FUSE . ... Falcon 9 First Stage Landing . ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

... Machines or equipment, especially unique or specialized types including telescopes and domes, require a combination of physical barriers, special safety control devices, and effective procedures to assure protection of personnel. ... Before unique machines or equipment are placed in service, the Site Operations Manager and Site Safety Officer will jointly conduct a hazard evaluation study to establish guarding requirements and safe work practices. ... Wheel guards are required on grinders. ...

... Participants . ... The workshop will take place at two locations: the Independent University of Moscow (3 days) and the Steklov Mathematical Institute (2 days). ... The registration fee is 150 USD for foreign participants (paid upon arrival by those who can cover it from their grants or institutions) and 3000 roubles for participants from the FSU (also paid for those who can cover it from their grants). This covers also the welcome party and the conference dinner. ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... Distributed Searching of Astronomical Databases with Pizazz K. Gamiel, R. McGrath and R. Plante National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 Abstract. ... In such a model, one would build a distributed searching gateway that would o#er a single user interface, but would map the user's query to each and every original data source in its native protocol and interaction style. ...

Space Development: Theory and Practice 2005 . ... During the conference the participants had an exclusive opportunity to visit such Russian enterprises associated with Space industry as Scientific and Production Association “Zvezda”, which designs and produces helmets, spacesuits and emergency evacuation systems for aviation; Khrunichev Space center which is one of the world’s leaders in launch vehicle and spacecraft development ; Rocket and ...

... 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 . ...

... Build your own bike light . ... My own cycling T-shirt designs . My own product reviews for: Shimano Sandals, Speedplay Frogs, Crankbrothers Mallet-C, and the Take-A-Look bicycle mirror. ... This link is to someone else's opinion on an external site. ... Frame testing gone bad . ... Mark Matarella's excellent recumbent web pages. ... The National Bicycle Greenway 's web pages on recumbents. ... Web page for RCN, the US recumbent magazine. ... Harris Cyclery , Sheldon Brown's cycling web site. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... StelGeometryBuilder Class Reference . ... buildCircle ( StelVertexBuffer < VertexP2 > *vertexBuffer, const float x, const float y, const float radius, const int segments=128) . ... buildCylinder ( StelVertexBuffer < VertexP3T2 > *const vertexBuffer, const float radius, const float height, const int slices, const bool orientInside=false) . ... Build a fisheye-textured sphere. ... Build a flat texture mapped ring with 3D coordinates (for example for planet's rings) More.. ...

... I used Ѕ inch thick Appleply plywood throughout. ... The mirror box is a little unusual. ... The original design uses a fiberglass tube to connect the mirror base plate to the top ring to form the mirror box. ... I decided to build the mirror box like a standard secondary cage instead, using aluminum tubes with push-in inserts. ... All three tubes are retained at the mirror box and the secondary ring using nine, 1-inch thick Appleply clamps, three at the secondary and six on the mirror box. ...

НОВОСТИ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЯ ИСТОРИЯ СТАНЦИЯ МИР ENGLISH . ... Мои публикации . ... Realization of the scale project, called to revive interest of Russians to a problem of space exploration, have started in Saint-Petersburg. ... The project utilizes reconstructed buildings of TzNII RTK and the adjacent territory of a public garden: it's made by the 'city inside the city' principle and includes many transport, trade, hotel, museum, business and entertainment structures. ... А.Железняков , 1997-2002. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . ... Rockets . Earth Satellites . ... By admin July 14, 2011 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . ... Image credit: Armagh Planetarium) . ... Sinead McNicholl, Education Support Officer (Image credit: Armagh Planetarium) . ... Your email address will not be published. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Observing . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Replacing Hubble . ... Sporting a lightweight mirror, grounded instruments and spare parts from the Hubble Space Telescope, and a new wide-field imager, the Hubble Origins Probe could deliver Hubble science into the next decade. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

SAI, graduates year 1982. ... Note: when just a 7-digit phone number is shown, it refers to a phone located in Moscow (international access 007-495). "+" in front of a number means that you must dial an international access code first (or just press "+" on your mobile phone keypad). ... 939-1672(work); . ... Ataev Sasha . 1-(703)-536-8881(home) (USA); . ... Bychkov Sergey . ... 1-(410)-740-8205(home), +1-(301)-286-2150(work) (USA); . ... 1-(412)-767-0332(home), +1-(412)-608-9339(mobile) (USA); . ...

... Central Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Pulkovo organizes All-Russian annual conference "Solar and Solar-Terrestrial Physics - 2008", which will take place in Pulkovo (Saint-Petersburg) from 7 to 12 July 2008. ... Subjects of the conference include a wide range of problems of solar activity and solar-terrestrial links. ... A joint Russian-Polish seminar on solar-terrestrial physics are also supposed to be held in the frame of the conference. ... For every report) 1. ...

... It was with this spirit that Norman Oberle suggested that area amateurs should have the benefit of a large aperture (25 inches or larger) telescope with sufficient focal length for excellent visual work. ... Norm Oberle and Jim Thomas spent 2,000 hours grinding and polishing to work the mirror into an oblate spheroid. ... Norm worked with Jim Thomas in a basement workshop. ... The Richland club is situated in the Hidden Hollow camp ground, and has long held meetings in the clubhouse on the grounds. ...

Here are some images of Australian currency. ... Some of the notes below are printed on paper, others are printed on a thin, flexible polymer (i.e. plastic). The polymer notes are fairly new - The Australian Mint is currently in the process of replacing all paper money with polymer. ... The front design features a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II of England, who is Australia's Head of State. ... This note is printed on paper, and is due to be replaced by a newly designed polymer note in 1996. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . ... The software run under Windows 95, 98 NT, including Paraxial and Seidel . ... and Energy Distribution, Optical Layout, Optimization, Tolerancing etc. ... Listed Since August 20, 2005 . ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...