... 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. ...

... Bob Benoit Manager of the Optics Division L-3 IOS SSG . Thursday, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:00 PM . ... Bob will talk about the telescope, and also describe some of the results from the M3’s first few months in lunar orbit. ... Thursday, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:00 PM in Phillips Auditorium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ( 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA ). ... Apr . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Solar System . ... European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system тАФ the nearest to Earth. ... Alpha Centauri is one of the brightest stars in the southern skies and is the nearest stellar system to our Solar System тАФ only 4.3 light-years away. ... The European team detected the planet by picking up the tiny wobbles in the motion of the star Alpha Centauri B created by the gravitational pull of the orbiting planet [2] . ...

Giant Jupiter. Jupiter . ... Jupiter has no solid surface that is why speaking about its dimensious point the radius of the upper border line of the clouds, where the presseru is about 10 KPa; radius of Jupiter on the equator is 71400 km. ... The Jupiter satellites. ... Nowadays 16 satellites of the Jupiter are known: Adrastea, Mitis, Amaltea , Phina,then 4 Galilei satellites: Io , Europe , Hanimed , Callisto , Leda, Aimalia, Zicitea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasipe and Sinope. ... Jupiter's ring. ...

... Анк а дня . ... NASA отправит к Юпитеру корабль на ядерной тяге . ... Американское космическое агентство NASA намерено в течение ближайшего десятилетия послать к Юпитеру беспилотный ядерный корабль Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter. ... Все ключевые слова . Картинка дня . ...

... You are a hot-shot rocket pilot. ... So whenever there is a difficult rescue mission to be carried out in space, they call on you. ... You will use computer simulators, which accurately model the motions of a rocketship. ... They should run on any computer with a web browser and an internet connection. ... Your spacecraft is a yellow sliver. ... Your mission is to rescue Luke. ... His spacecraft has run out of fuel, and unless you rescue him, will continue to drift there for billions of years. ...

... Polish scientists at the Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, in Wroclaw, south-west Poland, have constructed an instrument called SphinX (short for Solar PHotometer In X-rays), which is an X-ray spectrophotometer, that will obtain spectra in the energy range 0.5--15 keV in 256 energy channels with frequency of up to 100 times a second. ... SphinX is part of a package of instruments known as TESIS (PI Prof. Sergei Kuzin, Lebedev Institute, Moscow). ... Space Research Centre, . ...

. Russion version . Last updated on May, 2008 . RadioAstron Mission .

Outer Natural Satellites Orbits Ephemerides. Outer satellites of Jupiter . ... Choose Satellite J06 - Himalia J07 J08 J09 J10 J11 J12 J13 J17 J18 J19 J20 J21 J22 J23 J24 J25 J26 J27 J28 J29 J30 J31 J32 J33 J34 J35 J36 J37 J38 J39 J40 J41 J42 J43 J44 J45 J46 J47 J48 J49 J50 S/2003 J2 S/2003 J3 S/2003 J4 S/2003 J5 S/2003 J9 S/2003 J10 S/2003 J12 S/2003 J15 S/2003 J16 S/2003 J18 S/2003 J19 S/2003 J23 of Jupiter . ... Enter initial date (years) . ... inclination deg. pericenter deg. node deg. ...

... Search . ... Astrophysics Group . Research . ... Research and Instrumentation . ... While this seems an extraordinary endeavour, in light of what we have learnt about Solar System planets, only a handful of key ingredients are required to start characterising an exoplanet. ... The NGTS project is a partnership between the University of Cambridge, Queen?s University Belfast, University of Warwick, University of Leicester, Observatoire de Geneve, DLR (Berlin) and Universidad Catolica de Chile. ...

... The areas between the contours were measured automatically. The results of the measurement are represented on fig.1 The graphic shows the distribution of the height levels against their areas. ... USGS, USA Fig.1 The dependence of the distribution of the heights levels versus the area occupied Fig.2 The distribution of the areas of heights levels in the northern and southern hemispheres Fig.3 The distributions of the areas heights levels in eastern and western hemispheres of Mars ...

... Новости астрономии и космонавтики (Модераторы: Karen , recarrion , LeMay ) ? Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter . ... Рейтинг: +1/-0 . Ответ #180 : 11.03.2006 [00:18:11] ? ... Записан . ... Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter действительно стал орбитальным аппаратом! ... The spacecraft, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, will provide more science data than all previous Mars missions combined. ... The instruments on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will examine the planet from this low-altitude orbit. ...

... 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....

... Many massive planets contrary to Jupiter have large eccentricities of orbits. ... Another problem is to study the conditions and boundaries of stable, regular motions of small mass planet in systems having `Jupiter' with large orbital eccentricity as well as properties of regular, stable, and irregular, chaotic motions. ... The regular eccentricity evolution described above demonstrates that stable quasi--circular orbits of small planet are unusual. ...

NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. ... Space Science . ... Earthquake Forecast From Space . The experience with Ionozond instrument obtained in the last years of Mir operations points to possibility of registering certain earthquake precursors from a low-orbit manned space station. ... Russian biomedical experiment Profilaktika aims at measuring actual energy workout during different types of physical exercise in space flight. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Scientists of Samara University (joined SSAU and SSU) began to develop a unified manoeuvring unit for CubeSat-type nanosatellites for the first time in Russia. ... During one of his latest visits to SSAU he proposed to extend capability of the nanosatellites created in Samara University by making a manoeuvring unit and allocated funding to begin work on this topic. ... Nanosatellites of Samara University . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon only shows one face to us because it is not rotating. Better astronomy : The Moon only shows one face because it is rotating, once every time it revolves around the Earth. ... Place the Moon model on the table about 30 centimeters (one foot) away with the X facing the Earth model. ... You'll see that to keep the X facing the Earth model, you have to rotate the Moon model as it goes around the Earth model . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

A Brief History of the Discovery of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts - draft april 17, 1995 - J.Bonnell In October of 1963 the US Air Force launched the first in a series of satellites inspired by a recently signed nuclear test ban treaty. ... The event appeared to be a cosmic gamma-ray burst but at the time the constellation of satellites did not have sufficient timing resolution at the trigger to make a good determination of direction to the burst source. ...

... Why does X-ray astronomy require satellite telescopes? ... That is why scientists use space based satellites to record and observe data from X-ray sources. ... It primarily observes X-ray sources and has a moderate imaging capabilities. ... X-rays (because of their short wavelengths) , as opposed to visual light, can penetrate through otherwise opaque objects e.g. bones X-rays can observe celestial objects that emit shorter wavelengths such as galaxies , quasars, and black holes. ... X-ray image . ...

... Р?С?С?С?Р?Р?Р?Р?РеС?Р?С?Р?РеР? ... Launched on February 17, 1996, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is to be the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million. ... The ultimate goal of the mission is to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros in February, 1999, and study the asteroid for approximately one year. ...