Operating of the superconducting integrated receiver channel of the TELIS atmospheric sounder. ... The noise temperature of the SIR was measured to be as low as 120 K, with an intermediate frequency band of 4 ­ 8 GHz in double sideband operation; the spectral resolution is well below 1 MHz. The SIR was implemented in the three-channel balloon-borne instrument TELIS (TErahertz and submillimeter LImb Sounder) that detects spectral emission lines of stratospheric trace gases (like ClO and BrO). ...

Next: The Focal Plane Instruments Up: No Title Previous: The X-ray Optics . CXO has two focal plane instruments - the High-Resolution Camera (HRC) and the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS). Each of these instruments, in turn, has two detectors, one optimized for direct imaging of x rays that pass through the optics and the other optimized for imaging x rays that are dispersed by the objective transmission gratings when the latter are commanded into place directly behind the HRMA. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

Welcome to VDP home page. ... Operation and Measurements The VDP instrument was designed for determination of integral flux vector or integral energetic spectrum at the range 0.2 - 2.4 keV of ions or electrons of magnetospheric plasma. The instrument includes 6 identical Faraday caps, located by following ways: . ... In case of constant voltage, sensor supplies the total flux of ions plus flux of electrons above 2400 eV energy, or total flux of electrons plus flux of ions above 2400 eV energy. ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

XmTel uses the XPA interface for extensible connection to the operating system and scripting. ... Support for several commercial telescopes and controllers under Linux .. ... Software Bisque Paramount ME (requires RTS2 library) . ... In the current version of XmTel .. ... Offers command line and scripted operation using XPA . ... Version 7 includes the XPA server, telescope drivers, a client, utility software, and a standalone option that does not use XPA. ... Previous versions and support for INDI . ...

As outlined in the last newsletter, the New Technology Demonstrator (NTD) is the ATNF's SKA technology demonstrator for wide field-of-view, low frequency solutions. The Extended New Technology Demonstrator (xNTD) builds on these solutions to create a viable scientific instrument. ... A survey of the whole southern sky with the xNTD, lasting 150 days, would detect at least 40,000 HI galaxies with M* galaxies detected to z ~ 0.05. ... NTD/xNTD Project Scientist . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... SHANNON W. LUCID (Ph.D.) . nasa astronaut (former) . ... She is qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews. ... A veteran of five space flights, Dr. Lucid has logged 5,354 hours (223 days) in space. ... Dr. Lucid retired from NASA in January 2012. ... In completing this flight, Dr. Lucid logged 838 hours and 54 minutes in space. ... FEBRUARY 2012 ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... honing the skills of performing the tasks of operating the orbital (suborbital) spaceship in a normal autonomous flight and in case of occurrence of off-optimum situations; . ... preparing for conducting visual observations, photographing and video filming envisaged by the flight program; . ... preparing the astronaut's body to the effect of space flight factors, honing the skills of operating the spaceborne medical facilities, rendering self and mutual aid; . ...

Instruments and Methods 133 Sky temperature resolution by microwave radiometry A.G. Kislyakov State University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Introduction The threshold sensitivity of a radiometer is determined by well known equation Karlov & Manenkov, 1966 " hE i = h hn i +1 hn i + N t G0 , 1 G0 1=2 : 1 Here we denote hE ias the minimum detectable increment of radiation spectral density E at a frequency . ... Equation 3 gives a correction to the expression for limit detector sensitivity Kislyakov, 1997. ...

... Solar Space Experiments in LPI . ... The main goal of the TESIS is to provide complex observations of solar active phenomena from the transition region to the inner and outer solar corona with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution in the EUV and Soft X-ray spectral bands. ... Solar EUV Coronagraph (SEC), based on the Ritchey-Chretien scheme, to observe the inner and outer solar corona from 0.2 to 4 solar radii in spectral band 290-320 A . ... 2 arc. sec./pix . ... Backside-CCD 2048*2048 pix...

Interball-Tail Magnetic field measurements . Magnetic field measurements on-board the Interball Tail Probe are carried out by the FM-3I and MIF instruments. ... FM-3 M2 magnetometer failed in February 1996, FM-3 M1 and MIF are working until now. Data presented here are the combination of the data of all magnetometers. First of all FM-3 M1 data are used, if they are absent, MIF data used and if data of both magnetometer are absent, FM-3 M2 data presented. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Roof Status . ... If you select Winer to provide the site and maintenance for your remotely-operated telescope, your telescope will be housed in the modern roll-off roof observatory seen at left. ... The building computer and most customer telescope control computers are programmed to keep logs to assist in diagnosing problems in moving the roof or telescopes, or in controlling the instruments. ...

... to_tsvector( [ configuration , ] document TEXT) RETURNS TSVECTOR . Parses a document into tokens, reduces the tokens to lexemes, and returns a tsvector which lists the lexemes together with their positions in the document in lexicographic order. strip( vector TSVECTOR) RETURNS TSVECTOR . ... Returns the number of lexemes stored in the vector. text ::TSVECTOR RETURNS TSVECTOR . ... The text should be formatted like the vector would be printed by the output of a SELECT . ... Query Operations ...

Target: Venus . The Soviet VEGA Spacecraft Two remarkable "busloads" of automated spacecraft were launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in December of 1984. Each one contains three separate modules: one lander and one balloon-carried atmosphere probe to be dropped off at Venus in June, 1985, and one major package of instruments which will continue on to encounter Halley's Comet in March, 1986. ... Venus and Earth: A Comparison . Earth . ... in Earth days) . ... 243 Earth days . ...

Holometer: A Microscope into Space and Time . ... The instrument seeks to determine if slight but simultaneous jiggles of a mirror in two directions expose a fundamental type of holographic noise that always exceeds a minimum amount. ... Although the discovery of holographic noise would surely be groundbreaking, the dependence of such noise on a specific laboratory length scale would surprise some spacetime enthusiasts. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

EIGHTEENTH CREW . ... EXPEDITION EIGHTEEN (ISS-18) . MAIN TASKS OF THE EXPEDITION: . Launch of two crew members of the ISS-18 expedition and a participant of the space flight of the visiting crew VC-15 (the USA) on board the Soyuz TMA-13 vehicle of mission 17S; . Soyuz TMA-13 docking to the instrument compartment of the Zvezda Service Module (SM IC); . ... Servicing of operations on Space Shuttle (Mission ULF2) docking. ... Servicing of operations on Space Shuttle, Mission 15A, docking. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Antenna system . ... The Irkutsk incoherent scatter radar is one of the world's nine active radars which give the opportunity to investigate ionosphere by the incoherent scatter method. ... Antenna gain coefficient . ... Antenna . ... Two antennas . ... To get an idea what station "Dnepr" antenna system looks like, let us consider some of the radar views which are given by the photographs General view and Side view . ...

INFRARED FOURIER-SPECTROMETER SICH-F . ... Instrument work regimes: 1) Inside. 2) Calibration at inside standard sources 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 3) Calibration at "free space" 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 4) Infrared radiation measuring 10 - 40 min. per a rotation. ... Spectrometer consists of the photodetector block and the block of signal processing and control. ... Diagnostic information and attach data will transfer by state telemetric channels. ... Detector temperature. ...

... Telescope concept . ... The Submillimetron Project is dedicated to astronomical studies at the submillimeter and far infrared wavelengths using a cryogenic telescope located on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS). The Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is responsible for developing the Submillimetron Project. ... Currently, the Astro Space Center is carrying out a pre-Project study under contract with the Russian Space Agency. ...