... Resolution - 1.5-2.0 km . Swath - 450 km . ... Swath - 550 km . ... Resolution - 370 km . ... Spectral bands - 0.6-0.7 um; 0.8-1.1 um . ... Kondor - system for collection and transmission of data from sea and ice stations . ... Downlinking to ground stations (main centers) . ... Satellite's information system operates in both direct transmission mode and recording to on-board recorder mode with later downlink to ground station. ... For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

The best portrait book of the solar system I have ever seen is Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes , by Michael Benson, but with so many interesting missions going on at the moment, this is fast becoming outdated. ... Another stunning image from the Cassini spacecraft: The moon Enceladus . ... The seventies were the first golden age of robotic solar system exploration. ... First stop: Pluto and its satellite system . ... The three main categories of Kuiper belt objects known are: . ...

... The two common precisions single precision (SP) and double precision (DP) on a system based on IEEE 754 can specified with INTEGER , PARAMETER :: SP = SELECTED_ REAL _ KIND (6,37) INTEGER , PARAMETER :: DP = SELECTED_ REAL _ KIND (15,307) REAL ( KIND =SP) :: single_ precision _variables REAL ( KIND =DP) :: double _ precision _variables If we wish to work with at least 14 decimal ...

... In an unprecedented space collision, a commercial Iridium communications satellite and a presumably defunct Russian Cosmos satellite ran into each other Tuesday above northern Siberia, creating a cloud of wreckage, officials said today. ... The international space station does not appear to be threatened by the debris, they said, but it's not yet clear whether it poses a risk to any other military or civilian satellites. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

... Space flight . ... Space Hotel . ... The program of deployment of small orbital station (SOS) consisting of a family of spacecrafts and module-spacecrafts represents a consecutive realization of flight scenarios with consecutive building up of functions. ... Scenario 1 - the regular and revised spacecrafts of class "Soyuz" - TMSC and MNMSC (MNMSC-cargo, MNMSC-MR) are used, pls. see fig fig.8 . ... The terms of transition to this scenario are determined by terms of readiness of one or another module....

... A small yet powerful planning and scheduling toolkit has been built for the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite ( SWAS ) Small Explorer spacecraft. ... The simple design, minimal resource requirements and easy extensibility of the SWAS planning and scheduling toolkit should make it useful for other space astronomy missions. ... The relatively severe time and manpower constraints for the development of the SWAS Planning and Scheduling toolkit have forced it to remain small and simple. ...

... Data access . ... Updated data on the current orientation of the spacecraft Coronas-Photon in the ecliptic coordinate system. ... Data are updated 4 times a day. download the data for three months . download the data for all time . download the data for three months . ... The TESIS observatory (LPI) . TESIS: www.tesis.lebedev.ru . 1953-2016 Laboratory of X-ray astronomy of the Sun, LPI RAS, Russia . ... 7(499)132-65-96, Fax: +7(499)132-65-97 . ...

. NASA's GRAIL spacecraft successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, at 9:08 EDT on September 10, 2011. As depicted in the artist's concept on the right, the twin spacecraft, GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B, will work in tandem to study the lunar interior from crust to core, and to advance understanding of the thermal evolution of the Moon. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Thom Baur, United Launch Alliance

Next: THE SCHED INPUT FILES Up: INFORMATION AND ADVICE ON Previous: Configuration Studies Contents . ... The NAIF software package from JPL is called to read the spice files and calculate positions. The NAIF software significantly increases the size of a SCHED distribution, and the satellite tracking capability is unlikely to be needed outside the AOC. ... To use the tracking capability, a Satellite Initialization section needs to be included in the main input file. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... GREGORY B. JARVIS (MR.) . PAYLOAD SPECIALIST (DECEASED) . ... As a Communications Payload Engineer, in the Satellite Communications Program Office, he worked on advanced tactical communications satellites. ... After being honorably discharged from the Air Force in 1973, with the rank of Captain, he joined Hughes Aircraft Companys Space and Communications group, where he worked as a Communications Subsystem Engineer on the MARISAT Program. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... It is from from Voyager 1 and shows a whopping big impact crater dominating the profile of the moon. Note that Mimas is about 400 kilometers across (about 250 miles). ... The wall around the crater is 5 kilometers high, and that central peak rises 6 kilometers above the surface (many impact craters have a large central peak which is caused by a pressure rebound from the impact). ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... This new concept of cosmogony is based on two given conditions: unity of reason and unity in the nature of physical processes which determine the development of the galaxy and all of its affiliated elements: stars, solar systems, and satellites about the planets. ... That is why uniform physical laws determine the general development of the above structures. in detail . ...

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... Spacecraft that will search for planetary systems around 40 million stars and observe the largest explosions in the universe have been chosen as the next two missions in NASA's medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) program. ... The first mission, to be launched in 2003, is the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer, a three-telescope space observatory for studying gamma ray bursts. ... During its three-year mission, Swift will also survey the sky for new black holes and other sources of cosmic gamma rays. ...

WPLTN Technical Workshop . ... WPLTN-2012) . ... of the International Scientific Technical Conference WPLTN-2012 . ... Having an opinion that the collocation of various space geodesy measurement technologies has a fundamental role in increasing the accuracy of fundamental and applied positioning, navigation and timing provision, the International Scientific Technical Conference WPLTN-2012 has come to the following conclusions: 2.1. ... Web-page . ... Resolution of the conference WPLTN-2012 . ...

... The experience of determination of the link between radio sources and dynamical reference frames is presented. To obtain this connection we used a series of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of the spacecraft Phobos-2 and angularly nearby quasars. ... The dynamical reference frame is determined by equator and equinox of these ephemerides. ... References . ... The relative orientation of the radio and dynamical reference frames can be described by a sequence of three rotations . ...

... A nasty dispute between the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) and the space-science community was narrowly averted early this year when SDI officials backed down on a planned launch of a satellite with a Russian-built nuclear reactor on board. ... Early Soviet space reactors orbited for two to three months, and two Soviet Topaz 1 experiments, one for six and one 12 months, created radiation belts that disrupted the operation of scientific satellites. ...

To continue a command onto another line enter a ' \\ ' (backspace) character and then press <Return> . You can then continue entering the command. For example: rcp ubik:/home/roger/recipe.ps .; Return> lpr -Pps3 #6m recipe.ps . This copies the file recipe.ps from the home directory of the user roger on the remote host ubik to the users current directory. ... If you are using the Bourne, BASH or Korn shell a > character appears as a prompt at the start of the second command line. ...

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