... After hearing and discussing Rocket-Space Corporation Energy General Designer U.P.Semevov's report on the fulfilling the flight program of the orbital complex Mir and proposals on its further exploitation, the Council draws attention to: . ... According to the Russian Government Resolution No. 76 of January 21, 1999 a large amount of work to find and attract Russian and foreign investments to provide the further exploitation of the orbital station Mir was carried out. ...

... 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(MoD) were involved in developing a commercial space launch system based on the technology of the SS-18 ICBMs being withdrawn from service.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 ...

... The "ATLAS Aerospace" company invites all the volunteers to pass a course of space training in the simulators of the Yuri Gagarin Russian State Scientific-Research and Test Center of Cosmonaut Training. ... The main simulators, trainers and stends are: . ... Don - 732" specialized simulator, which is used for a crew training on manual-mode control of the "Soyuz-TM" space vehicle and its systems in the course of approach and docking to the orbital station; . ...

... About StarCalc . News . ... StarCalc Home Page . Short description of changes, implemented in the StarCalc, . ... CHANGES OF PROGRAM CORE FUNCTIONS. CHANGES OF PROGRAM INTERFACE. CHANGES OF OBJECT INTERFACES. ... New "Output console". ... Information, which is generated by StarCalc, is added into the console - for example, ephemeris tables. ... In the StarCalc state file can be saved autorotation parameters, object selection, object locking mode, auto start and stop autorotation mode. ...

. Please enter the lightcurve file name: . Lightcurve file: . A similar FITS-to-ASCII lightcurve converter is available for INTEGRAL/OMC data. If you have questions, bug reports or suggestions how to improve this service, please fell free to contact the author (Kirill Sokolovsky) via e-mail: kirx[at]scan.sai.msu.ru .

... Advises . Contact Advises . As an advise for amateurs we would like to underline: if it's possible, try to observe 3 asteroid positions per night and do not neglect to observe the Numbered Minor Planets in your telescope field of view as a "by product" of your observational programs. ... We think such estimations ought to be produced every morning after CCD observations of the moving celestial objects by observer himself. ...

... The Colorful Clouds of Rho Ophiuchi . ... The blue regions shine primarily by reflected light. Blue light from the star Rho Ophiuchi and nearby stars reflects more efficiently off this portion of the nebula than red light. ... The Rho Ophiuchi star clouds , well in front of the globular cluster M4 visible above on far lower left, are even more colorful than humans can see - the clouds emits light in every wavelength band from the radio to the gamma-ray . ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

M obile A stronomical Sy stem of TE lescope- R obots MASTER-II Kislovodsk Lomonosov Moscow State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow Union "Optic" , Kislovodsk Solar Station Latitude = 43 o љ44'.767љN; Longitude = 42 o љ31'.417љE; Altitude = 2067љm MASTERљIIљ(8љsquareљdegress) + MASTERљVWF(VeryљWideљFieldљCameras (FOV=800 square degrees, Timeљresolutionљupљtoљ150љms, with unfiltered m_lim=14m on 5 sec. exposure, and ~10.5m with 0.15 sec) . ... 11h 38m 38.0s , -09d 59m 59s) . ...

... A three-cell test section roughly representative of the primary mirror was provided for this test by the Steward Mirror Lab. ... Additionally, the tests are intended to determine relative airflow vs. pressure drop characteristics for each of the air flow patterns so the results can be evaluated both as a function of flow rate and of pressure drop along the flow path. ... The bottom (top as installed) was cut out so it could close the chamber for heating and be removed for the cooling tests. ...

... Master . ... SAI MSU . Conference was supported by PLC "MO "OPTIKA" . ... Morning session . Chair Hugo Levato (ICATE, Argentina) . ... Vladimir Lipunov ( MSU , SAI ) . ... Evgeniy Gorbovskoy (MSU, SAI) & . А lexander Belinskiy (MSU, SAI) . ... Chair Claudio Mallamaci (OAFA, Argentina) . ... Using MASTER Net in the MSU educational process . ... Chair Victor Kornilov (MSU, SAI) . ... Nikolay Budnev (ISU ) . ... Excursion to the Moscow Kremlin . ... Joint MASTER and Russian Pereplet session. ...

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... About meteorites . ... Meteoritic data . Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... In addition, meteorites are divided into falls and finds depending on how they were collected. ... In other words, by far most meteorites falling on Earth are chondrites. Finds are meteorites that were not seen to fall but were subsequently discovered on the ground, often long after they landed. ... The vast majority of meteorites in museum and private collections around the world are finds, not falls. ...

. Scientists broke open meteorite MIL 05035 in the Antarctic Meteorite Processing Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center to study its composition. The lunar meteorite's interior is pinkish-tan with an unusual granular texture. Each side of the cube shown is slightly less than half an inch (1 centimeter) in length. Antarctic Search for Meteorites Program, Case Western Reserve University

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December 2007 Astronotes 1 The last men on the Moon by Alyson Kerr, Education Support Officer On 14th December 1972, the Apollo 17 crew finished 22 hours of rock and dust sampling and started the journey home. ... The famed Apollo lunar missions had finally ended. ... The crew of Apollo 17 knew that they would be the last to set foot Image Credit: NASA Apollo 17 crew Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans and Harrison Schmitt pictured before the flight on the Moon's surface for many years. ...

. Эмблема основной программы полета первого японского астронавта. First Material Processing Test .

... About ATMoB . ... The Observing Committee is starting an Observing Awards Program to promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. ... Participant must be a current member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston . ... To qualify for your Observing Award Certificate, turn in your worksheet and drawings to an ATMoB Observing Committee member or observing@atmob.org . ... This Excel sheet has useful macros. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Flexible frame grabbing and high speed image processing . for PCI bus PCs . ... Fully software compatible with XPG-1000 Power Grabber. ... The FPG-44 Power Grabber product line is a family of imaging boards and software offering flexible frame grabbing and high speed image processing for PCI bus PCs. ... The FPG-44 will interface with any analog/digital camera or sensor at data rates up to 32 Mbytes/Sec. ... The FPG-44 is a flexible frame grabber and image processing board for PCI and ISA bus PCs. ...

The Russian Parliament will soon consider a bill that would restructure the Russian space program, 35 years after the launch оf Sputnik. ... But the legislation's most striking and controversial feature is a provision that would ban testing and deployment оf space weapons ? including anti-satellite weapons and space-based missile interceptors. ... A draft bill was written by a group of experts within the Moscow Space Club, several of whom now work on space issues with the Russian Parliament. ...