... It is created for freeware distribution as an attempt to show the achievements of the Russian space industry and tell a story of the reusable orbital ship "Buran" . On your screen you will see a stunningly realistic picture of near-Earth space, as well as several spacecraft, created or envisaged by the really talented Russians: . ... demonstration mock-up of the military orbital laser station "Polyus" ("Pole") , which suffered a failure during its launch on May 15, 1987; . ... Texture . ...

Microsymposium 34, MS058, 2001 ANOMALIES OF THE MOON'S THERMAL EMISSION IN THE IR SPECTRAL RANGE (10.5 - 12.5 micron). ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, 119899, Russia, pugach@sai.msu.ru Summary: New satellite measurements of the lunar-surface radiation temperature were used to construct the spatial angular function of thermal radiation of the Moon in the infrared (10.5-12.5 micron) spectral range. ... These thermal anomalies are observed only in the limited range of phase angles. ...

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... The Military Aspects of the Soviet Cosmonautics : A Side View . This book is the first effort in an unclassified Soviet publications to provide a comprehensive overview of the Soviet military space program. Presented here are the classification of the military space systems by functions performed (Chapter 1), the analysis of the organizational evolution of the Soviet space program (Chapter 2) and the description of all observable satellite systems of military or double destination (Chapter 3). ...

Instrument . ... Scanning TV-sensor with on-board data recording system for global coverage mode . ... recording, direct transmission . ... IR-radiometer for global coverage and direct data transmission modes . ... The scientific instrument package onboard the Meteor-3 spacecraft provides for regular instant acquisition of images of cloudiness and Earth surface in visible and infra-red bands, data on air temperature and humidity, sea surface temperature and clouds temperature. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... ClassљList . ... Refraction Class Reference . ... virtual voidљ . forward ( Vec3d &altAzPos) const . ... backward ( Vec3d &altAzPos) const . Remove refraction from position ("reduce"). ... forward ( Vec3f &altAzPos) const . ... setupGLSLTransform ( StelGLSLShader *shader) . ... virtual void Refraction::backward . ... virtual void Refraction::disableGLSLTransform . ... virtual void Refraction::forward . ... virtual void Refraction::setGLSLUniforms . ...

ISSN 0038 0946, Solar System Research, 2011, Vol. ... S. Ivanova, L. A. Goncharova, A. V. Mitrofanova, S. G. Popova, T. A. Sherginaa, V. A. Solov'eva, S. N. Oparina, and A. M. Zykova b Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia Lebedev Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Received April 13, 2010 a Abstract--On February 26, 2009, the first data was obtained in the TESIS experiment on the research of the solar corona using imaging spectroscopy. ... 2009). ...

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. ...

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 . ...

... Minute Values of Geomagnetic Field Components . ... AA 1868 - Present (3 hourly and daily) (monthly) (yearly) (Lists and histograms of geomagnetic disturbance and Solar Sunspots) KP_AP 1932 - Present (3 hourly and daily) (Lists and histograms of geomagnetic disturbance and Solar Sunspots) AE_HV 1957-75, 78-88 (hourly) AE_MIN 1978-881-6;198903;1990-94 (minute) DST 1957 - Present (hourly) PC 1975 - Present (15-minute) AMANAS 1959 - Present (3 hourly and daily) KMKNKS 1983 - Present (3 hourly) . ...

... The antenna system . ... A military radar system, consisting of two identical radars, was transferred to the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP). ... The system features a two-channel transmit-receive antenna. ... By changing the phase difference in the channels, one is able to modify the shape of the total channels' beam in the angle-of-elevation plane. ... The total beam is controlled by introducing the phase signal into the excitation signal of one of the channels. ... Peak power.. ...

... I.Barkalov 1.42432chernogorovka, Russia SUPERCONDUCTING RESPONSE BULK CdSb ALLOY NEAR THE LOCALIZATION THRESHOLD IN V. F.Gantmakher, V.M.Teplinskii, Institute of Solid State Physics, Experiments with rnetastable CdSb alloy (S) demonstrate superconducting response on the insulating side of the metal(M)-insulator(I) transition. ... The state g=4 separates M- and I-states [7]. of Fig.1 displays the evolution in the S-response. lJhen g>4, i.e. the curves demonstrate the I-states, guasireentrant behavior...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Rockets . ... New Shepard taking off (image credit: Blue Origin) . ... This is a reusable, vertical takeoff, vertical landing two-part suborbital space vehicle. The two sections of New Shepard are a pressurised crew module or capsule for six passengers (with its own launch escape system) and a propulsion module (or booster rocket) propelled by a Blue Origin BE-3 liquid propellant rocket motor. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...

... Here we briefly summarize our long period experience of constructing and operating wide-field monitoring cameras with subsecond temporal resolution to look for optical components of GRBs, fast-moving satellites and meteors. ... We also give a status report on the next generation, multiob jective and transforming monitoring system, the MegaTORTORA, whose 6-channel (Mini-MegaTORTORA-Spain) and 9-channel prototypes (Mini-MegaTORTORA-Kazan) we are building now at SAO RAS. ...

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... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... space flight . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Dave's Universe . ... Last command sent to Planck space telescope . ... The European Space Agency s (ESA) Planck space telescope has been turned off after nearly 4.5 years soaking up the relic radiation from the Big Bang and studying the evolution of stars and galaxies throughout the universe s history. ...

НОВОСТИ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЯ ИСТОРИЯ СТАНЦИЯ МИР ENGLISH . ... Soviet manned spaceship "Soyuz-33" was launched from the Baikonur space launch facility on April 10, 1979. It was piloted by the ship's commander Soviet cosmonaut Nikolay Nikolayevich Rukavishnikov and Bulgarian cosmonaut Georgy Ivanov. ... He made his space flight on April 10 - 12, 1979, as research cosmonaut of the space ship "SOYUZ-33" (call sign - "SATURN-2") together with Soviet cosmonaut Nikolay Nikolaevich Rukavishnikov. ...