... 28 April 2010 FTT kick-off meeting 5 Where are we today? Use results from this to secure funds for expansion post 2012 Majority of funds from NMT ­ possibility of some STFC support 28 April 2010 FTT kick-off meeting 6 The FTT /NAS system Ensures that the light beam collected by a telescope is sent down the beam relay pipes in the right direction The FTT /NA system monitors the light The active secondary mirror redirects it 28 April 2010 FTT kick-off ...

... This book is designed to prepare your child for school in a fun and motivating way. ...

Next: The Distributed Analysis System Hierarchy (DASH) for the SUBARU Telescope . ... The REMOT project objective is to develop and validate a generic approach to allow remote control of scientific experiments and facilities that require real time operation and multimedia information feedback. ... These have been partly implemented to perform a set of demonstrations, showing the feasibility of the design. ... Integrating the control system of the Galileo telescope in the REMOT project is simple: . ...

... A wonderful site where the debate about the nature of light sits. ... Shadow and Light science activities - A short list of activities for students about light and shadow designed by an undergraduate Education major in New Foundland. ... Projecting Shadows - Fantastic interactive site about how to make shadows from the Light/Block/Shadow technique. ... The Energy Story: Solar Energy - Aimed towards children, this is a short introduction about solar energy. ... You Light Up My Life | ...

... 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. ...

... Ground support equipment for aircraft electronics. ... Avionic electrical interface adapters (SABI) are used for interfacing the GSE control computer with onboard equipment of SU-30MKM aircraft. Data recorder system (SRP) is designed for readout, processing and monitoring of information, transmitted in onboard data transfer lines. Set of equipment USI-TM and USI-TM/SNI for non-contact readout from onboard data registers. ... OAO Sukhoi, OAO NIIP V. Tikhomirov. ...

... Figure: Children from the Armstrong Primary School, Armagh, at the Launch of the Human Orrery on 26 November 2004. The innovative `Dance of the Planets' was choreographed by dance teacher Jennifer Rooney. ... The Armagh Observatory Human Orrery is believed to be the first large outdoor exhibit designed to show with precision the elliptical orbits and changing relative positions of the planets and other solar system bodies versus time. ...

... Our tours this year include: Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Bauman Moscow State Technical University Orevo Laboratory, Russian Mission Control Center (TsUP), Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Lavochkin Scientific and Industrial Association, Energomash Scientific and Industrial Association, Scientific and Industrial Association "Zvezda", Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Monino Air Force Museum. Bauman Moscow State Technical University . Moscow) . ...

... Launch Vehicles and Spaceships . We have two rockets used to launch manned spaceships : . ... VIR 2000 will be employed with the SIRIO 2000 spaceship. ... It can carry 960,000 pounds into several planets orbit or launch a 180,000 pound payload on several planets journey. VIR 2001 will be employed with the SIRIO 2001 spaceship. ... They test many of the techniques required for landing men on different planets , such as rendezvous procedures and leaving and re-entering and orbiting a spaceship. ...

Status of the EGSE updating with SCOS 2000 Nicola La Palombara INAF ­ IASF Milano XMM ­ EPIC Operation Meeting Mallorca, 29 March 2011 Status of the EGSE updating with SCOS 2000 Project overview Two on-ground EPIC Flight Spare instruments: 1 MOS camera at the Leicester University (UK) 1 PN camera at the MPE Panter facility of Munich (D) Both instruments are operated through the same Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) which was used for AIV tests before satellite integration. ...

... INTERCOSMOS 19 . ... The Intercosmos-19 satellite was designed for investigations of the topside ionosphere structure and electromagnetic processes in it. ... The instruments installed onboard Intercosmos-19 were designed and manufactured by scientists of Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia and USSR. ... The sounding data could be directly transmitted to a receiving station (direct mode) or be stored in the onboard memory device for a certain period and then sent to the Earth (recording mode). ...

... There is an additional zenith photometer channel for measurement of emissions formed heights more than 500 km to take into account the processes connected with solar activity and high layers of ionosphere. ... Photometer BP-1 . ... Photometers: BP-1 - to zenith, BP-2 - to nadir. Spectrometer: Limb channel at angle 18 deg to satellite velocity vector in the plane «velocity vector-nadir», scanning takes place within +5 - -30 deg to optic axis in the plane «velocity vector-nadir»; . ...

Progress is being made in many areas of SKA research and development within ATNF. Important milestones have been reached recently in the progress towards a New Technology Demonstrator telescope, and in the area of SKA siting studies. ... Australian scientists and engineers have been continuing development of SKA technology concepts as funded by the Australian government through the Australian Astronomy Major New Research Facilities Program. ... The technology objectives of the NTD are: . ...

... 2004 November 22 . Swift Launches . Credit: NASA . ... To help find out, NASA launched the Swift satellite on Saturday, as pictured above . ... Once a gamma ray burst (GRB) is located, Swift itself will rotate to face it head-on and determine its distance directly. ... Subsequently collected GRB and afterglow information will help astronomers not only determine the nature of the initial explosions, but also the nature of the expanding shockwaves. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Contacts . 2011: . ... In collaboration with the UFU . ... It is shown that the application of modern kinematic components (the ball screws, CV joints, hybrid gearboxes), stepper and servo-controlled drives and encoders improves the accuracy of the panel positioning by the radius, angle, azimuth by 6, 4, 2 times, respectively, to reduce the backlash by 2-4 times, to shorten the panel setting time by 8-10 times, to achieve the repeatability of panel setting within 20 microns. ... Archive . ...

... Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) . ... RSSI Acceptable Use Policy . ... The RSSI's mission is to provide a computer communications network designed to support Russian Science flight mission, discipline research programs, research and .education institutes and non-profit organizations. ... All user requests for the Russian Space Science lnternet connectivity must be validated and supported by Network Coordination Center at the Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). ...

... 6.1 Kino 2048 x 1024, Eight Output CCD Design: On the center/right of the SandboxIV wafer is an 8-output design that uses a similar cell structure to the PlutoCCD CCD. ... The primary functional difference between PlutoCCD and Kino is the number of amplifiers. Kino has 8 output amplifiers and PlutoCCD has 4 output amplifiers. ... The CCD uses the two-stage amplifier found on the PlutoCCD and the two-stage Kino design and is available with both MPP and non/MPP operation. ...

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1,2 - Modifyted Richter-Slefogt Camera (355mm, 200 mm) The system was designed by V.Yu.Terebizh in 2001 (terebizh@crao.crimea.ua), and then has been made by Gennadiy Borisov . ... Very Wide Field Camera near Kislovodsk: MASTER WFC-Kislovodsk . Up to 1200 square degrees up to 13 m. Very Wide Field Camera near Moscow (40 x 60 square degree) (CCD 1392 x 1040 pix, Sony). ... This system can discover and measure satellites and space refuse parameters to within 0.1 ang.sec. precision. ...

Report “Laboratory zero-baseline interferometer tests” (ZBT) was prepared and issued in ASC (35 pages including 17 figures and diagrams in Russian language). ... The Ground-Space radio interferometer (OVLBI) Radioastron includes several space and ground-based segments which are designed and manufactured by different countries and organizations. ... ZBI tests (for OVLBI) were implemented in Russia firstly. The tests were implemented by joint team of ASC, JPL and NRAO in 1999. ...