... 1980 . ... A three-stage version of China's CSS-X4 intercontinental ballistic missile is being developed for various space applications. ... The rocket - to be known as "Long March 3"- has four gimbal-mounted engines in the first stage developing a com?bined thrust of some 280 tonnes. ... Four small gimbal-mounted motors provide thrust-vector control. ... The third stage, which employs LO 2 /LH 2 propellants, has four gimbal-mounted thrust chambers. ... CHINESE ASTRONAUTS. ...

... The acquisition data base of meteorological temporal data including systematic and chronologic cataloque for Global Tropical Cyclogenesis (on the whole of World Ocean's aquatorium) for 1983-1992 time interval is developed and based on personal computer IBM PC/AT. ... The data base consists of the following units: 1. ... This data base offers a unique opportunity to analyze macro- and synoptic-scale temporal features of global tropical cyclogenesis as indivisible physical process. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... SETI And TESLA . ... Post Message | ... As long as seti continues to monitor the hertzian radio waves, they will never find E.T. ,scaler wave communications was the goal of Nikola Tesla, who allways claimed to be in contact . ... tesla's secret to not only communications, but unlimited energy. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

MATHEMATICAL MODELING: . ... This model is developed on the base of the probabilistic description of the collisional aeronomical processes and is realized on a computer as the numerical system (stochastic model). ... Shematovich, V.I., Bisikalo , D.V.             Nonequilibrium processes in the planetary and cometary atmospheres. ... In Russian) . ... Piarnpuu , A. A.; and Shematovich, V. I.       Construction of structural stochastic models of collision processes in rarefied gas media (abstract) . ...

... The paper tracks basic evolution of the Soviet rocket and space industry after the 1946 and analyzes "genealogical trees" of the original enterprises (NII-88, NII-885, OKB-456, etc.) to reveal typical features of this evolution. ... The paper tracks basic evolution of the Soviet rocket and space industry after the 1946, when an original set of institutions was established. ... The study demonstrates, that the evolution of the Soviet rocket and space industry is more complicated, than usually...

East Dubuque,Illinois, USA . Greetings from our East Dubuque School to Zelenogorsk. ... Our classes are in the high school link. ... East Dubuque is a small town of about 2,000 people. ... Our high school here in East Dubuque is also pretty small, it only has about 190 . ... I go to school in east Dubuque IL This is a very small town . ... I am now 16 years of age, and a junior at East Dubuque High School. ... I am a senior at East Dubuque High School. ... people in the town of East Dubuque. ...

HIGH RESOLUTION IONOSPHERIC MASS SPECTROMETER P-11 . ... Onboard mass-spectrometric equipment for study of neutral and ionized components of Earth upper atmosphere. Mass-spectrometer P-11 is one of P-series modifications of the on board radio-frequency monopole spectrometers. ... The instruments of P-series have passed successful approbation in space experiments aboard geophysical rockets MP-12, launched for investigation of Earth upper atmosphere (Ref. ... Measured mass number range, AMU - 1.. ...

Multipurpose Aerospace System (MAKS) . ... Up to date the main components of the orbital stage construction have been worked up, external fuel tank mock-up has been made, significant work has been already done on the propulsion system MAKS consists of the subsonic carrier aircraft and an orbital stage with an external fuel tank mounted on it As the first stage the An-225 MRIA aircraft originally intended for the BURAN transportation is used. ... CREATION AIRFRAME OF THE BURAN ORBITAL SPACESHIP . ...

Helpful information for users of the UNIX operating system, developed at the University of Edinburgh from work funded by the ITTI . ... UNIXhelp is mirrored around the world and freely available for local installation. ... Working with files and directories . Managing your working environment . Controlling access to your files and directories . ... Editing text files . ... Using UNIX commands . ... UNIX commands for VMS users . UNIX commands for DOS users . ... The UNIX file system . ...

... TCC User's Guide explains how to use the TCC from an Astronomer's point of view. TCC Commands describes the commands in detail. ... You can talk to one using the tcc command talk mirror_name " mirrorCtrl command " for example talk sec showparams . ... You can talk to one using the tcc command talk mirror_name "galil Galil command " for example talk sec "galil XQ#SHOWPARAMS" . ... You can talk to one using the command talk axis_name " axis controller command " for example talk az "MS.DUMP" . ...

The paper presents the 'Neptune-ME' information display system (IDS) as a spaceman console (SC) of the descent module of the 'Soyuz -TMA' piloted transport spaceship, and the integrated console (IC) of manual control loop for module equipment in the Russian segment of the 'Alpha' international space station. ... to control spaceship systems; . ... An integrated control console (ICC) which is hardware and software compatible with a IBM PC, is suggested as a basic console for the manual control loop. ...

Dr. Phil Plait , aka "The Bad Astronomer" . ... Biography . ... Book Reviews . ... Bad Astronomy site . ... When I was maybe four or five years old, my dad brought home a cheapo department store telescope. ... Eventually, he worked with the Hubble Space Telescope, spending ten years using it to observe expoding stars and helping to calibrate one of the cameras on board. ... In 2001, Dr. Plait finished his book Bad Astronomy , published by Wiley and Sons. ...

Astronomes Amateurs du Luxembourg a.s.b.l. " We bring the Universe to you ! Founded in 1971 by a group of enthusiasts and star aficionados, our association is now counting more than 130 members.As a national association we attract hobby astronomers from the whole country to our regular night-sky observations and to the meetings in our club at Dudelange. ... by topic : PDF File Download (360KB) . ... Article about AAL in "Le Quotidien" newspaper of Juli 21 2005 - PDF File Download (132KB) . ...

1,2 - Modifyted Richter-Slefogt Camera (355mm, 200 mm) The system was designed by V.Yu.Terebizh in 2001 (terebizh@crao.crimea.ua), and then has been made by Gennadiy Borisov . ... Very Wide Field Camera near Kislovodsk: MASTER WFC-Kislovodsk . Up to 1200 square degrees up to 13 m. Very Wide Field Camera near Moscow (40 x 60 square degree) (CCD 1392 x 1040 pix, Sony). ... This system can discover and measure satellites and space refuse parameters to within 0.1 ang.sec. precision. ...

... 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. ...