Cairo, Egypt . Cairo is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Middle East. Although Cairo itself is only about 1,000 years old, parts of the metropolis date back to the time of the Pharaohs. ... In the 19th century, one of the city's rulers, Khedive Ismail (1863-1879), sought to transform Cairo into a European- style city. ... Although a housing crisis has been broadcast by the international news media, it is estimated that Cairo may have a surplus of some 1 million housing units. ...

... Fifteen years ago, on February 20, 1986 the launching of the Core Block marked the beginning of the Mir Orbital Station construction. Currently the Mir Station consists of 6 modules. ... The Mir Station total mass is near 130 tons. ... For sinking unburned Mir Station fragments after reentering atmosphere a Southern Pacific Ocean area limited by the following point coordinates: 53 њ S, 175 њ W; 23 њ S, 175 њ W; 23 њ S, 132 њ W; 30 њ S, 127 њ W; 30 њ S, 90 њ W; 53 њ S, 90 њ W is choosen. ...

... Remote Sensing of Fire Intensity and Burn Severity in Forests of Central Siberia . ... Increasingly sophisticated and comprehensive estimates of burned areas and of active fire areas are being produced using satellite imagery. However, accurate regional estimates of fire intensity, ecosystem fire effects, and fire emissions to the atmosphere require development of accurate remote-sensing based methods for estimating the intensity of active fires and the severity of fire impacts. ...

It is shown that the Earth is a natural collector of extraterrestial nonsterile artefacts that could impact our planet. Artefacts from 1.2*10 6 nearby stars could have reached the Earth over its history, and could be agents for spontaneous interstellar panspermia, even if alien civilizations pollute space only at the current terrestrial rate. ... There could be alien artefacts on the Earth even in the absence of alien expeditions to the Earth, or of interstellar missions at all. ...

... More than 300 surface reconstructions are already known for pure Si surface and Si surface with adsorbate. Study of their properties by the methods of surface physics reveal numerous interesting phenomena including various phase transitions accompanied by changes of Fermi-surface topology, development of the charge-density wave, etc . ... The charge-density wave (CDW) develops in materials with a chain-like crystal structure at temperatures below the Peierls transition temperature. ...

. home - main - author - help english - russian . N-1 rocket . N-1 on the . transporter . Block D . LOK orbiter . L-3 lander . N-1 stack after Block G separation . (hole in the shroud is for illustration only, real shroud is solid) . Warning: 4 files, 100Kb . LK engines . LK landing leg . shock absorber . Block D, rear view . Lunar surface mockup from LK trainer .

... The BURAN orbiter is the first reusable manned space vehicle in our country. The BURAN orbiter is the space airplane which may descent from an orbit and land to an airdrome . ... BURAN orbiter . ... CREATION AIRFRAME OF THE BURAN ORBITAL SPACESHIP . ... Radio-Navigational Maintenance of the Atmospheric Descent and Landing of the BURAN Orbital Spaceship " by Shcharensky V.A.; . ... Landing Complex for the BURAN Orbital Spaceship " by Yakhno V.A., Studnev V.V.; . ... FROM SPIRAL TO MAKS . ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... SYSTEM OF MEASUREMENT OF THE CHARGE S/C Foton-M #2 . ... The charging of the space vehicles and their elements leads to failures of an electric equipment. ... The charging of S/C occurs as a result of influence on its surface of some the factors, in particular surrounding space plasma and solar electromagnetic radiation. ... Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 2005-2006 . ...

... Ov er th is past y ear, the Ground Networks and Commun ications Working Group (GN&C WG) has been organized under the G lobal Geodetic Observ ing System (GGOS) to work with the IAG measuremen t services ( the IGS, ILRS, IVS, IDS and IGFS) to develop a strategy for building, integr ating, and maintain ing the fundamental n etwork of instruments and supporting infrastru cture in a sustainab le way to satisfy the long-term (10-20 year) requirements id entified by the GG OS Science Council. ...

... 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 ...

... Fiona Harrison (Caltech), New Results from the NuSTAR: The High Energy X-ray Sky In Focus 09:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30-12:00 Coffee break Cosmological simulations Avishai Dekel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Feeding Galaxies by Cosmic-Web Streams and Pancakes Debora Sijacki (Cambridge), Resolving the flows around black holes in cosmological simulations Tom Abel (Stanford), Dark Matter Dynamics 12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30-15:00 LUNCH and poster session Cosmological ...

... NASA Main Page . NASA Organizations Index . ... Marshall Space Flight Center . ... Science @ NASA: news . ... Goddard Space Flight Center: Science missions . National Space Science Data Center . data from NASA space flight missions, . ... High Energy Astrophysics Science Research Center (HEASARC) - a source of gamma-ray, X-ray, extreme ultraviolet, other wavebands observations of cosmic (non-solar) sources. ... Kennedy Space Center - Publisher's Photo Corner - Photograph Index . ...