... A World Explorer . ... Credit: NASA , JPL Magellan Project Explanation: Ferdinand Magellan was a world explorer. ... NASA's Venus probe, the aptly named Magellan spacecraft shown above in an artist's conception, provided a global view of the poorly known surface of Venus - just as Magellan's expedition provided the beginnings of a global perspective of the Earth. ... Placed in a polar orbit, Magellan's many circumnavigations resulted in a detailed radar mapping of 98% of the Venusian surface. ...

... August 25, 1995 . A World Explorer . ... Explanation: Ferdinand Magellan was a world explorer. ... NASA's Venus probe, the aptly named Magellan spacecraft shown above in an artist's conception, provided a global view of the poorly known surface of Venus - just as Magellan's expedition provided the beginnings of a global perspective of the Earth. Ferdinand Magellan's expedition of 5 ships and 265 men left Spain in 1519 in search of a western route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. ...

... NASA Astronaut, USA . ... HONOURS: NASA Medals for Space Mission (1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999). ... He is a veteran of five space flights and has logged altogether 178 days 23 r 44 in 15 s including three space walks of the total duration: 18 hr 49 min. ... The mission duration was 9 days 6 hr 8 min 24 s. In the third mission from February 3-11, 1995 he was a mission specialist onboard Discovery (STS-63); it was the first rendezvous (up to 10 m) of STS-63 with the Russian Space Station Mir. ...

... Mars Polar Lander Mission Status . ... Flight controllers for Mars Polar Lander continued their attempts to communicate with the spacecraft yesterday and today so that they can be certain they have exhausted all possibilities before they conclude their search. ... Mission planners are also working to implement a plan to use Mars Global Surveyor to take pictures of the landing site for Mars Polar Lander starting sometime next week in hopes of spotting the spacecraft or parachute. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Jeffrey N. Williams (COLONEL, U.S. ARMY, RETIRED) . ... Williams has served in the Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA), Space Station, and Soyuz Branches of the Astronaut Office, led the development of a space shuttle cockpit upgrade, and completed temporary assignments at Marshall Space Flight Center supporting the test and evaluation of the International Space Station Laboratory Module and at NASA Headquarters in support of legislative affairs. ...

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): . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . Robot Exploration . ... Science Fiction . ... Thanks to extensive training and consummate professionalism, the two astronauts successfully and without a fuss fixed the problem . ... Article by Colin Johnston, Science Communicator) . ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ... Sojourner" on Mars, its top . ...

Magellan to Venus . ... The spacecraft carried a sophisticated imaging radar, which was used to make the most highly detailed map of Venus ever captured during its four years in orbit around Venus from 1990 to 1994. After concluding its radar mapping, Magellan also made global maps of Venus's gravity field. ... The Magellan mission was divided up into "cycles" with each cycle lasting 243 days (the time necessary for Venus to rotate once under the Magellan orbit). ... Magellan Orbiting Venus . ...

Target: Venus . The Soviet VEGA Spacecraft Two remarkable "busloads" of automated spacecraft were launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in December of 1984. Each one contains three separate modules: one lander and one balloon-carried atmosphere probe to be dropped off at Venus in June, 1985, and one major package of instruments which will continue on to encounter Halley's Comet in March, 1986. ... Venus and Earth: A Comparison . Earth . ... in Earth days) . ... 243 Earth days . ...

... Space flight . ... Space Hotel . ... The program of deployment of small orbital station (SOS) consisting of a family of spacecrafts and module-spacecrafts represents a consecutive realization of flight scenarios with consecutive building up of functions. ... Scenario 1 - the regular and revised spacecrafts of class "Soyuz" - TMSC and MNMSC (MNMSC-cargo, MNMSC-MR) are used, pls. see fig fig.8 . ... The terms of transition to this scenario are determined by terms of readiness of one or another module....

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... Finding Stars . ... Handling Bad Pixels . ... The guide camera image controller can control one or more guide cameras. ... Each time the camera is read, the image is automatically saved to a fits file on a shared disk. ... Cameras that have bad pixels require "bad pixel maps" in order to find stars, centroid or even compute statistics for the image. ... View this image (for instance in NIH Image) and determine an upper and lower cutoff; pixels whose values are outside of this range are considered...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controller Instruction Manual . Autostar Computer Controller . ... NOTE: This manual covers both Model #495 Autostar and #497 ETX Autostar Computer Controllers. ... Autostar Primary Menus and Options . ... Chapter 3: Alignment . ... Guided Tour Menu . ... Chapter 5: Autostar Menu Functions . ... Meade Autostar Computer Controller . ... Meade #505 Connector Cable Set Manual . ... Copyright 2006 Meade Instruments Corporation, All Rights Reserved. ...

OptInt PmWiki : MROI Delay Line SW / Workstation . ... Standalone system bootstrap: define procedure and implement . ... Log/fault handling . ... Interface with system controller: define connections and forwarding (consider subsystem disconnection) . Logging choices re concatenated status/non-synchronous telemetry . ... TRLY items can be configured as status or telemetry - prefer telemetry? ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIDelayLineSW/Workstation) ...

... In particular, members of the project regularly organize events dedicated to various interesting astronomical phenomena and events - solar and lunar eclipses, transit of Venus, etc. A total lunar eclipse will occur on April 15th, 2014, the first in two and half years. ... GLORIA will travel to Peru to broadcast the event live. ... Lunar eclipse . Lunar eclipses occur when the Moon passes into the Earth's shadow. ... A partial eclipse will be visible from the Canary Islands. The broadcast . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Moon . ... Observing . ... Spacecraft begins collecting lunar atmosphere data . ... LUNAR OBSERVING | MOON . ... NASA s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is ready to begin collecting science data about the Moon. ... For about 100 days, the spacecraft will gather detailed information about the structure and composition of the thin lunar atmosphere and determine whether dust is being lofted into the lunar sky. ...

NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. ... To Mars! ... Military Space . Space Science . ... Heroes Of Space Remember . Russian Plans For Martian Expedition . On July 5, Russian design team lead by Vitaliy Semyonov presented the results of Mars expedition feasibility study sponsored by the International Space Technology Center. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > Instrumentation Development > Detectors and Controllers . ... La Silla Paranal Observatory . ... APEX . ... Instrument development includes the development, testing, installation and monitoring the optical and infrared detector system for ESO telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory in Chile. ... The development of detectors systems include the electronics that is needed for the controlling detector and for processing the data. ...

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