... 1979 A TICKET TO SPACE . ... The Volks-rocket and its designer, Robert Truax. ... We have since heard of another "private venture" space project being pursued by the veteran rocket pioneer Robert Truax in the United States. ... One need not have the advanced degrees, perfect health or the thousands of hours .of flight time this frontier has demanded to be attracted towards it. ... Robert Truax brings some forty years of experience to his private manned space flight programme. ... Flight Tests . ...

APO Imager Preliminary Design Review J. Huehnerhof W. Ketzeback F. Stauffer E.Leon f ( Project Engineer ) ( Project Manager) (Software Engineer ) (Electronics Engineer ) DAY 1 (October 30, 2013 ) 08:30 ­ 08:40 Opening welcome and introductions ­ M.Klaene 08:40 ­ 09:15 History and need to retire SPIcam, review of science drivers / design requirements document, comparison with current imagers ­ ...

... 1963 - 1969 р - MSc (Optical Engineering, Honors)NTUU, Kiev, Ukraine . 1975 -1978 - Special Methods for Optical Design, Diploma Postgraduate Scholarship, NTUU, Kiev, Ukraine . ... Institute for Fine Mechanics and Optics, Leningrad, Russia . ... 1969-1970 - Optical Engineer, Institute for Electromechanic Devices, Kiev, Ukraine . ... 1978-1985 - Senior research scientist, Department of Optical Engineering, Kiev Polytechnic Institute (currently National Technical University of Ukraine,NTUU) . ...

... We present a new cooled grating near infra-red spectrometer designed to acquire spectra at the TIRGO telescope in the 0.9-2.5 micron region with a resolving power of 1000, equiped with a Rockwell NICMOS 3 detector. keywords: Infrared Spectroscopy :: NICMOS 3 :: TIRGO . The LonGSp (Longslit Gornergrat Spectrometer) project is part of the work that the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri is doing in order to build a new generation of instruments for the IR telescope of Gornergrat (TIRGO). ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... To this end, a `data-server' concept is employed, which attempts to separate the data entities that make up the ARF from the algorithm that combines these entities to form the ARF. The data-server allows the developer to exchange various components (eg the CAL effective area data) with dummy values without affecting the main algorithm. ... XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2007-11-15 ...

Super Rocket Targets . NPO MOLNIYA has been designing rockets-targets for over 30 years using the great experience in crea-ting anti-aircraft guided rockets (AGR) for C-25M. On the basis of B-300 anti-aircraft rockets which expired their service life, there were designed, tested and put into the serial production the following types of the rocket - ... The analogue of this system successfully passed the state tests with the ZVEZDA-4 rocket-target. ...

... Space flight . ... The L-39 two-seat training jet plane is intended for flights in regular and complex meteorological conditions at day and night time, as well as for acrobatic flying. ... A cockpit canopy is pressure-tight with a single layer glazing, the back-folding parts can be thrown off under abnormal condition by pyrotechnical systems. ... Comparable on size and assigned tasks with the American F-16 and F/A-18 fighters, the MIG - 29 is presently in the service of 23 countries of the world. ...

Decomposition of Galaxy Images and Galaxy Rotation Curves Mosenkov A.V.*^, Savchenko S.S.*, Sotnikova N.Ya.* ... The DECA (DEComposition Analysis) code is designed to investigate images of galaxies in an automatic regime (using the simple 'bulge+disc' model) as well as in manual mode for more detailed images and/or for multicomponent structures. ... The GRCF package was created for performing the galaxies rotation curve decomposition using the models of the bulge, the disc, and the dark halo. ...

Optical design and verification of the sub-millimeter limb sounder TELIS P. Yagoubov1, G. de Lange1, A. Baryshev2, R. Hesper2, V. Koshelets3, G ... IREE, Russia 4Institute for Remote Sensing Technology, DLR, Germany 5Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland Vertical scan , mm Vertical scan , mm TELIS (Terahertz and submm Limb Sounder) is a cooperation between European institutes, DLR, RAL and SRON, to build a three- ... SIR cold channel phase distribution. ...

Next: The X-ray Optics Up: No Title Previous: No Title . ... NASA's newest Great Observatory, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) - formally known as the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) - launched on July 23, 1999 and represents such an advance. ... CXO has broad scientific objectives and an outstanding capability to provide high-resolution ( 0.5-arcsec) imaging, spectrometric imaging and high resolution dispersive spectroscopy over the energy band from 0.1 to 10 keV. ...

... Questions: . ... Find some information on the design and potential of the Advanced Gas Turbine. ... Find some information on the frequency and amount of oil spills which occur in the world's oceans in a given year. ... We don't care how many you get correct. However, of the questions there, explain which one had an answer that most surprised you and how should that answer affect our future policies? ... Find some information about the history of Dam failures in the US and Canada since 1900. ...

... The Sun in Three Dimensions . ... Credit: STEREO Project , NASA Explanation: What does the Sun look like in all three spatial dimensions? To find out, NASA launched two STEREO satellites to perceive three dimensions on the Sun much like two eyes allow humans to perceive three dimensions on the Earth. ... Pictured above are two simultaneous images of the Sun taken by STEREO A and STEREO B , now digitally combined to give one of the first 3-D pictures of the Sun ever taken. ... A Jet from the Sun . ...

Optical Communication Experiment using Very Small Optical transmitter with SLR station National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Space Communications System Laboratory Hiroo Kunimori and VSOTA TEAM Sep 24, 2012 WPLTN Technical Workshop@St.Petersburg, Russia Table of Contents Backgound:HODOYOSHI Project JapaneseHODOYOHI= Reasonable Reliability Engineering to develop series of 50kg Satellite. ... How to share wavelength communication beam and ranging beams. ...

This color composite view combines violet, green, and infrared images of Jupiter's intriguing moon, Europa, for a view of the moon in natural color (left) and in enhanced color designed to bring out subtle color differences in the surface (right). ... In contrast, the brownish mottled regions on the right side of the image may be covered by hydrated salts and an unknown red component. The yellowish mottled terrain on the left side of the image is caused by some other unknown component. ...

The project of the informational system creation on the problem of evolution of radio galaxies, as a part of the "Big Trio" project aimed on studing of distant radio galaxies, is designed. This system allows a user to operate with simulated curves of spectral energy distributions (SED) to estimate ages and redshifts by photometry data. Authors use SEDs of several models for different types of galaxies. ... The HTTP and e-mail access is organized to this system. ...

... Design of Imaging Optics . Analyzing Optics . ... The high resolution near infrared camera (CONICA) for the first VLT unit telescope is under development. It serves as a multi-mode instrument for the wavelength region between 1.0 and 5.0 microns, providing diffraction-limited spatial resolution when combined with the adaptive optic system NAOS of the VLT (Rosset et al. ... VLT instrumentation, ALADDIN InSb detector, NIR imaging, NIR spectroscopy, re-imaging optics, IR optics . ...

... Product details: . ... 2 Composition/Data on components: . ... Information pertaining to particular dangers for man and environment . ... 4 First aid measures . ... Use fire fighting measures that suit the surrounding fire. ... Measures for environmental protection: . ... This information is furnished without warranty, and any use of the product not in conformance with this Material Safety Data Sheet, or in combination with any other product or process, is the responsibility of the user. ...

... Our Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 interactive shows allow children to explore the Solar System and then to take part in a competitive quiz about the planets and moons that they have just seen. ... During their Planetarium visit, Year 3 and 4 primary school pupils take part in an interactive Solar System show. ... Key Stage 2 pupils will take part in an interactive show which explores the Solar System and then take part in a workshop which asks them to design a landing system which will allow . ...

HIGH RESOLUTION IONOSPHERIC MASS SPECTROMETER P-11 . ... Onboard mass-spectrometric equipment for study of neutral and ionized components of Earth upper atmosphere. Mass-spectrometer P-11 is one of P-series modifications of the on board radio-frequency monopole spectrometers. ... The instruments of P-series have passed successful approbation in space experiments aboard geophysical rockets MP-12, launched for investigation of Earth upper atmosphere (Ref. ... Measured mass number range, AMU - 1.. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Февраль 1998 . ... Дата: 11 февраля 1998 (1998-02-11) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel To Present Report To NASA Привет всем! ... Priority is given to programs that involve the safety of human flight. ... Дата: 11 февраля 1998 (1998-02-11) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: First Major Flight Component For X-33 Arrives At Palmdale Привет всем! ...