Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Space Flight . ... This is a recent (November 2011) NASA diagram summing up the past, present and future (plus a might have been) of US rocketry. €аThe rockets are arranged from left to right in order of size. ... It is towards the larger end we find the most familiar vehicles in the shapes of the Shuttle (NASA?s recently retired Space Transportation System ) and Saturn 5 (still the most capable US launch vehicle to actually fly). ...

... The spacecraft of Magion type have been selected as the subsatellites of the Interball project: Magion-4 (C2-X) for the Tail Probe and Magion-5 (C2-A) for the Auroral Probe. ... Magion-4 was produced in the Czech Republic in collaboratrion with Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Austria and has onboard scientific instruments and sensors designed and built in Czech Republic, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovak Republic. ... Plasma flow detector VDP-S (Czech Republic, Russia) . ...

Mariner 10 . ... Mariner 10 was the seventh successful launch in the Mariner spacecraft series, and the first to use the gravitational pull of one planet ( Venus ) to reach another ( Mercury ). ... It measured 1.39 meters (4.56 feet) diagonally and 0.457 meters (1.5 feet) in depth. ... Views of Mariner 10 . ... Venus/Mercury Mission . ... Launched in November 1973, this mission provided new information about Mercury and Venus in the Mariner program's first dual-planet mission. ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

The Hubble orbiting telescope. The Earth's atmosphere, while transparent to visible light, absorbs most "electromagnetic radiations" which belong to the same family as light: parts of the infra-red (IR) and all of the ultra-violet (UV), X-rays and gamma rays. ... The Hubble telescope , in low Earth orbit, overcomes such limitations, in the visible range and in part of the UV. ... Some satellites specialize in observing the Sun, such as the Japanese Yohkoh and NASA's SOHO . ...

... 11.02.2008 . ... Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: How did Epimetheus form? ... To help answer that question, this small moon has recently been imaged again in great detail by the robot spacecraft Cassini now orbiting Saturn . Epimetheus sometimes orbits Saturn in front of Janus , another small satellite, but sometimes behind. ... February 2008 . ... Publications with keywords: Saturn - cassini spacecraft . Publications with words: Saturn - cassini spacecraft . ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

... MAO main . ... Announcement : Conference on AUTONOMOUS SPACECRAFT NAVIGATION - New Concepts, Technologies & Applications for the 21st Century . ... От: Heraeus announcements . ... Тема: Announcement : Conference on AUTONOMOUS SPACECRAFT NAVIGATION - New Concepts, Technologies Applications for the 21st Century . This announcement was send to several email lists. ... AUTONOMOUS SPACECRAFT NAVIGATION . New Concepts, Technologies Applications for the 21st Century . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... News . ... On Monday, December 21, RSC Energia specialists for the first time in the history of operation of the cargo and crew transportation spacecraft of Progress and Soyuz type ran a communications session with the new-series spacecraft Progress MS via a relay satellite. ... RSC Energia: Progress MS-02 docked with the ISS.' ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. ... Military Space . ... Development And Launch Of The First Satellite Of Earth . ... Vladimir Ivanov, the first commander of VKS in 1992-1997, recalls the years of organization of the Military Space Force as well as the development of launch vehicle and space systems in that years. ... 40 years ago, in August 1962, Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich were the first cosmonauts to fly into space simultaneously. ...

... SSAU scientists, specialists and students were engaged in creation of new scientific equipment for the new satellite for about two years. ... It will participate in the first launch campaign from the space-launch complex Vostochniy. ... The first launch from Vostochniy will perform the Samara carrier rocket Soyuz-2.1a , which will orbit another device created by SSAU scientists and students - nanosatellite SamSat-218 , as well as the university spacecraft Mikhail Lomonosov (Moscow State University)....

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Март 1998 . ... Дата: 26 марта 1998 (1998-03-26) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: STARDUST Update - March 20, 1998 Привет всем! ... TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Galileo Europa Mission Status March 25, 1998 NASA's Galileo spacecraft is sending to Earth the final pictures and science information stored on its onboard tape recorder during the December 1997 flyby of Jupiter's moon Europa. ...

NASA Press Release Text - June 24, 1996 GALILEO READY FOR CLOSE FLYBY OF JUPITER'S BIGGEST MOON Now residing in orbit around Jupiter, NASA's Galileo spacecraft is primed for its first close flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, at 2:29 a.m. EDT on June 27, 1996. ... In the days just before and after the Ganymede flyby, Galileo's other studies will include a search for auroral activity on Jupiter's nightside and observations of other Jovian moons: Io, Europa and Callisto. ...

... Instructions for saving » Search for another transcript » NPR home page Profile: NASA to launch probe to Pluto January 17, 2006 from Morning Edition RENEE MONTAGNE, host: If all goes well, NASA will launch the first spacecraft to Pluto today. The New Horizons probe will be launched on the fastest interplanetary rocket ever. ... NPR's Richard Harris explains. ... Max Mutchler from the Space Telescope Science Institute says the astronomer who asked for the pictures was then too busy to look at them. ...

... At an altitude of 200 kilometers (120 miles), a satellite zips by at 28,000 kilometers per hour, completing one orbit every 90 minutes. ... If the rocket engines force the satellite to go faster or slower than this velocity, the satellite goes into an elliptical orbit. A satellite in an elliptical orbit keeps changing its distance from Earth (see diagram ). ... At its farthest point from Earth (apogee), the satellite stops moving away from Earth and starts moving downward. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... On June 15, 2010 at 18:42:16 Moscow time (14:42:16 UTC) a launch of Dnepr launch vehicle with PRISMA spacecraft (Swedish Space Corporation) and PICARD spacecraft (French Space Agency - CNES) onboard was performed from Yasny launch base located in Orenburg region, Russia. ... This launch became the 14 th successful mission under Dnepr Program, and the 4 th one performed from Yasny launch base. ...

A Brief History of the Discovery of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts - draft april 17, 1995 - J.Bonnell In October of 1963 the US Air Force launched the first in a series of satellites inspired by a recently signed nuclear test ban treaty. ... The event appeared to be a cosmic gamma-ray burst but at the time the constellation of satellites did not have sufficient timing resolution at the trigger to make a good determination of direction to the burst source. ...

. The XMM-Newton website has moved to the following location: . http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton

... Archives . ... News and related stories . ... Another rabbit I missed came to a realization by a friend, who was sure that I already knew this ?call for papers? notice for the special issue of the signal processing magazine (SPM). ... The slog has some SPM article review posts, as you recall. ... I believed that research topics in signal processing is very strongly associated with astronomical data analysis. ... hlee on Do people use Fortran? ... Chandra Blog . ... What?s new . ...

Space debris is a serious and growing threat to operating spacecraft. Potential debris collisions with satellites are becoming increasingly likely and can cause economic loss of between $25 million and $500 million per event. ... National and international partners include EOS Space Systems, Lockheed Martin Space Systems (US), Optus Satellite Systems, the Australian National University, RMIT University and the National Institute of Information and Communication s Technology (Japan) . ...