... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . ... During 1992-2003 timeframe, a team of Russian and Ukrainian companies together with the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) were involved in developing a commercial space launch system based on the technology of the SS-18 ICBMs being withdrawn from service. ... ISC Kosmotras was assigned the role of a team leader to build and commercially operate this SS-18 ICBM based space launch system and the entire program was given the name Dnepr . ... Dnepr LV ...

Apollo Program Nation: USA. ... For complete details see Apollo Lunar Surface Journal.. ... Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, Deputy Administrator of NASA, speaking in Denver before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said: "The sheer magnitude of the manned lunar exploration program, amounting as it will to $3 billion or more [in fiscal year 1963], represents a significant application of the Nation's resources. ... 7/11/62 Selection of LOR as Mission Mode - Launch Vehicle: Saturn V . ...

Since I started teaching at Syracuse, it has been obvious to me that no faculty member works in a vacuum: administrative and support services contribute important elements of our working environment. Faculty members can contribute to the quality of this environment through a wide range of Committees and other voluntary activities. ... Member, Engineering Co-op Advisory Committee (since 1992) . ... Chair, Departmental Committee on Graduate Affairs (for 8 years) . ...

... Plotting in MIDAS will create a MIDAS plotfile which contains all essential plot information. By default this plotfile (metafile) љ is always created by the execution of the main plot commands. ... The SHOW/GRAPH command shows the user which is the last created plotfile. ... Names of plotfiles are a composition of the device names that is currently assigned and the MIDAS session number. ... He/she can now send the plot to a hardcopy device using the COPY/GRA command. ... send plotfile to LASER . ...

... Omdetect uses two different algorithms for source-detection - one is optimised for detecting point-like sources, and the second is optimised for detecting extended sources. ... Two separate lists are used mainly because the detection algorithms for point and extended sources are different, and also because the photometry of the two types is done differently. ... The number of pixels that an extended source contains. ... Point-source detection algorithm . ... Extended-source detection Algorithm . ...

... CfA Home . HCO Home . SAO Home . ... Welcome to CfA . CfA History . ... Laboratory Astrophysics . Extreme Astrophysics . ... 617) 495-7210 . ... 617) 495-7044 . ... 617) 495-7265 . ... HEA Research . ... HEA Home Page . CFA/HEA Home Page . ... High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) . Chandra X-ray Center . ... Chandra Cluster Cosmology Project . Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP) . ... Chandra-Planck Clusters Project . ... CfA Virtual Observatory Project . ...

... Next: Space and the Up: GUIs and Visualization Previous: A Graphical Planning . ... The WIYN 3.5m Telescope Control System features a platform independent, network transparent protocol for distributing telescope control data to both local and remote sites. ... The WIYN Engineering Data Subsystem (EDS) is a spacecraft-style telemetry system that sends telescope telemetry (encoders, currents, voltages, pointing data, etc.) in a machine-independent format to clients connected across a network. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

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MAIN METROLOGICAL CENTER RUSSIAN FEDERATION National Research Institute for Physical-Technical and Radio Engineering Measurements (VNIIFTRI) e ­ mail: pasynok@vniiftri.ru, ru bezmenov@vniiftri.ru JOURNEESE 2014 VNIIFTRI as the Russian Main Metrological Center of Time, Frequencies and Earth Rotation Service th ti carried out the rapid EOP processing based on GNSS, VLBI and SLR observations for many years. 2 VNIIFTRI takes participation in GNSS and SLR observations of IGS and ILRS too. ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

EARLY LUNAR ACTIVITIES OF THE USA, AND AN AMERICAN VIEW OF THE EARLY SOVIET LUNAR PROGRAM James D. Burke, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology 13 January 2000 ABSTRACT This paper summarizes the starting phase of American robotic lunar programs. ... Though the early lunar missions yielded only limited scientific information, they did set both nations' programs on a path toward later great advances in our understanding of the Moon. ...

... Even though the DoD would ultimately select senior Air Force officials, US Navy oceanographers and Air Weather Service officers as shuttle payload specialists, MSEs would be the first personnel from an American military programme to go into space. ... One Air Force officer, Maj. ... Jacobson was concerned about shuttle launch delays and wanted the MSEs to understand that his mission, i.e., the launch of national security payloads, dwarfed their mission, flights in space by Air Force personnel. ...

The NTP Version 3 daemon currently supports several different radio, satellite and modem reference clocks plus a special pseudo-clock used for backup or when no other clock source is available. Detailed descriptions of individual device drivers and options can be found in the Reference Clock Drivers page. Additional information can be found in the pages referenced there, including the Debugging Hints for Reference Clock Drivers and How To Write a Reference Clock Driver pages. ...

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... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 29.06.2009 . ... Credit: SELENE Team , JAXA , NHK Explanation: Japan's Kaguya spacecraft crashed into the Moon last week, as planned. Officially named the Selenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE), the spacecraft was given the nickname Kaguya after the princess in the Japanese folklore story The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter . Pictured above is a movie taken by Kaguya during the last orbit of its twenty-month lunar mission. ... June 2009 . ...

... Proceedings . ... Proceedings will be published in journal "Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur" which is published monthly by the Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering (Kharkov, Ukraine) and simultaneously in English translation by American Institute of Physics under the title "Low Temperature Physics" . Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the rules of "Low Temperature Physics" ( Download LTP rules ). ... 2009-2010 ISSP RAS | ...

... Report on Cosmic Call 1999 . ... Cosmic Call Sessions . ... This Report outlines methodology, hard- and software, which were developed to transmit first public Interstellar messages from Evpatoria Deep Space Center (EDSC), and describes four Cosmic Call Sessions, which were fulfilled in EDSC on May 24 and June 30 - July 1, 1999. ... Each Cosmic Call consists of two parts. ... Dutil Message, . ... The software for gathering all messages and creating the Cosmic Call stream, was written on C language. ...