Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... By admin January 21, 2011 Posted in: Robot Exploration . A UFO hovers in the Martian sky (Image credit:NASA/JPL) . The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity is too heavy to slam into the rocky plains of Mars encased in airbags like its predecessors, so this imaginative and complex system was devised instead. ... Is there a video anywhere on the internet of a test of the ?sky crane? rockets? ...

... A Proposal for an International Atlas of Lunar Exploration Philip J. Stooke Department of Geography University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2 Introduction. ... I propose the creation of an International Atlas of Lunar Exploration to tell this story in cartographic form. ... Many new products would be based primarily on spacecraft images rather than drawn maps, which will also reduce costs and help illustrate the primary data products of the principal lunar missions. ...

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... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . ... Description and main specifications . Dnepr launch vehicle (LV) is based on the SS-18 liquid-fuelled ICBM and has a three-stage plus Space Head Module (SHM) in-line configuration. ... Dnepr LV . ...

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... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

What is the VSM ? ... VRML = Virtual Reality Modeling Language. ... One of the best VRML viewers, if not the best, is Netscape Navigator with Live3D plugin. ... Warning: if you use any other viewer, spacecraft will probably look like parrots or clowns because each VRML viewer treats colors in its own unpredictable way. ... You can use these VRML models freely in any way you like, but: 1) let me know you use them; 2) if you add them to your Web page, a reference to the VSM must be there. ...

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Core vehicle of the OS was launched on February 20, 1986 from the launching pad Baikonur by the launch vehicle Proton-K. It is the central binding element of the complex. The mass of the vehicle at launch was equal to 21000 kg; fuel mass- 1200kg. It has two main solar batteries' panels with area equal to 2*38 m 2 (capacity -9 kW) and additional panel fixed by the cosmonauts. ... Module has 6 docking ports (2 axial and 4 outlying) to dock the transportation ships and additional modules. ...

... Reports on progress and error are always recorded in the log file of the program. ... UT date of the measurement finish in YYYY-MM-DD format UT time of the measurement finish in hh:mm:ss format Average flux in A aperture Average flux in B aperture Average flux in C aperture Average flux in D aperture Normalized variance of flux in A aperture Normalized variance of flux in B aperture Normalized variance of flux in C aperture Normalized variance of flux in D ...