Astronomy Picture of the Day . An Ion Drive for Deep Space 1 . ... 26.10.1998 . ... Credit Copyright: New Millennium Program , JPL , NASA Explanation: Space travel entered the age of the ion drive Saturday with the launch of Deep Space 1 , a NASA mission designed primarily to test new technologies. Deep Space 1 is bound for asteroid 1992 KD in July 1999. ... Publications with keywords: Deep Space 1 - ion drive . Publications with words: Deep Space 1 - ion drive . ... Deep Space 1 . ...

... Sahuaro High School . A manifesto for astronomy education. ... Counselor: As you know, high school is now a five-year sequence of courses designed to parallel the new pentayear curriculum our colleges and universities have developed. ... My many years of astronomy teaching, coupled with my completely biased view that astronomy is the most exciting of all the sciences to teach kids, constantly triggers dreams of such changes in our curriculum. ... Astronomy is science for the masses. ...

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. ...

Next: Design and Status of Up: No Title Previous: Limits on the Star . Design and Status of the NICMOS Cryocooler . ... Extending the NICMOS Lifetime . ... Expected NICMOS Performance after HST Servicing Mission 3 . NICMOS Cooling System Design . ... Creare Cryocooler . Power Conversion Electronics . Electronics Support Module . Aft-Shroud Cooling System . ... 2048 x 2048 HgCdTe Arrays for Astronomy at Visible and Infrared Wavelengths . ... Hybridization of 2048 x 2048 Arrays . ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Description / Soft flare rejection for . The EPIC-pn fast timing mode was designed so that a time resolution of 0.029 milliseconds can be achieved. ... Below this energy the data is affected by so-called soft flares which are caused by stack overflows generated by high energy particles. These so-called soft flares have sharp rise (from 0 counts/sec to several thousand counts/sec in 0.10-0.15 sec) then decaying back 0 counts/sec slightly slower in about 0.3-0.4 sec). ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... LX600 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... LightBridge Series . ...

... Plastic forming and welding of optical elements for laser technologies and optical telecommunications. A set of technological processes of manufacturing of optical elements with sophisticated profiles for laser technologies and optical telecommunications has been developed in the Institute of Solid State Physics . ... тАв€а to form optical surfaces with non-spherical and rather sophisticated profiles, improving essentially effectiveness of laser technologies and optical telecommunications; . ...

... Milky Way . ... Space Flight . ... The maiden flights onboard Virgin Galactic?s spaceplanes are scheduled to take place early next year (however this date has been changed around for a few years after multiple delays). €аRegardless of the wait over 700 people are now ticket holders and are hoping to become space tourists paying just $250,000 for the pleasure. ... He has already done flights to the edge of space in a Mig 21, and done weightless flights in the Russian cosmonaut traing eircraft ? ...

... News . ... solar system . ... NASA announces design for new deep space exploration system . ... NASA has selected the design of a new Space Launch System (SLS) that will take the agency's astronauts farther into space than ever before, create high-quality jobs here at home, and provide the cornerstone for America's future human space exploration efforts. ... I'm excited about NASA's new path forward and about its promise for continuing American leadership in human space exploration." ... LATEST NEWS...

... Main . ... The RadioAstron is an international space VLBI project led by the Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, Russia. ... List of organizations which were taken part in developing of the project and now support the RadioAstron mission is presented here . The RadioAstron Newsletter # 29 , July 18, 2015. RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity - 4 for observations from July 2016 to June 2017 inclusive. ... 2.7, December 17, 2015 : English version. ... Main ASC . ...

Herman Cortes technology Projects German and I had a long talk yesterday about his work with the focal phase arrays and the other task he's engaged with, designing an extremely broadband feed that is compact and can be fabricated inexpensively. He's been making good progress with both by assigning Eliana to do the initial work with the focal phase array, and he himself has been concentrating on the broadband feed design. ... While still in progress, Eliana's work will surely succeed. ...

To main of Laboratory . The research work and design of optical and optical-electronic devices are carries out by laboratory staff: . ... Lens: . ... In the layout 1 prism systems perform functions of dispersive element, corrector of aberrations, optical reducer. ... Spectral range 200 - 400 nm; . ... Back Forward . ... The main corrector's function are compensation of field aberrations of the main spherical mirror of a telescope (diameter of 600 mm, f'=1200 mm) and increase aperture ratio. ...

MICROSCOPES . ... In the last three to five years, LOMO has developed new lines of products, including new families of biological, fluorescent, and polarizing microscopes, night vision devices, consumer Maksutov telescopes, etc. ... 1939 Company introduces its first student and biological microscopes. as well as its first manual movie camera . ... 1956 LOMO produces its first wide-screen-format movie projector and introduces its first fluorescent microscope for chemical structure analysis. ...

... fine at head dot cfa dot harvard dot edu . ... Twelve years software development in UNIX environments, with a strong emphasis on user interface development and user-centered design. ... Strong background in computer security, including maintenance of host and network security, investigation of security incidents, development of secure protocols and authentication software, and statistical analysis of security logs. ... Experience: . ... Developed WWW-based nameserver administration software. ...

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. ...

The Planewave Instruments 20-inch (0.5-meter) f/6.8 corrected Dall-Kirkham telescope at Moore Observatory in Kentucky and its identical companion at Mt. ... The CDK20 North at Moore Observatory has been our primary platform for developing technology for remote and robotic operation in the Shared Skies program. ... g'r'z'i' filter wheel . ... Axis quad video server to send realtime video to the remote observer . ... Telescope monitor camera in the dome also on the video server . ...

... Future seminars . P a s t seminars . Seminar council . Some computational models for medical biomechanics and ionospheric plasma " . ... The results demonstrated in the first part will be accompanied with examples related to several physiological processes in health, disease and some external disturbances: trachea-bronchial tree ventilation; blood flow in systemic and pulmonary circulation (including their interaction); mass transport in respiratory and cardiovascular systems; clots ...

... After hearing and discussing Rocket-Space Corporation Energy General Designer U.P.Semevov's report on the fulfilling the flight program of the orbital complex Mir and proposals on its further exploitation, the Council draws attention to: . ... According to the Russian Government Resolution No. 76 of January 21, 1999 a large amount of work to find and attract Russian and foreign investments to provide the further exploitation of the orbital station Mir was carried out. ...

RUSSIAN PEREPLET . Culture, Science, and Education Portal . Science Space Culture General Discussion Scientific Discussion Seminars . News: The best of Russian Science and Technology . ... MASTER Team Science Release: Discovery of the Black Hole Ergosphere? ... The International Conference "The International Conference" . ... MASTER is the first russian asteroid factory . ... New Russian "Volga" . ... MASTER - is the first russian robotic telescope for observations Gamma-Ray Bursts . ...

... The 30" Reynolds reflector, 1917-2003 . Reynolds fitted with a spectrograph designedтАж . ... Title: Reynolds fitted with a spectrograph designed by Dr Heinz Gollnow and built at Stromlo, early 1950s . ...