... To Fly Free in Space . ... STS-41B , NASA Explanation: At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was farther out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured above , was floating free in space. McCandless and fellow NASA astronaut Robert Stewart were the first to experience such an "un tether ed space walk " during Space Shuttle mission 41-B in 1984 . ... January . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... It has been developed as part of the ATNF's Virtual Observatory work to demonstrate how pre-exising software (in this case AIPS++) can be published as web services. ...

... 2012 January 1 . To Fly Free in Space . STS-41B , NASA . Explanation: At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was farther out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured above , was floating free in space. McCandless and fellow NASA astronaut Robert Stewart were the first to experience such an "un tether ed space walk " during Space Shuttle mission 41-B in 1984 . ...

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... The barycentric corrections computed in 8.7.1 are applied to the event times in a time-sorted QPOE file. ... output files: rp90_out.qp ti apply_bary input qpoe file name: rp90_sti.qp[ time =(1606720.0:1612809.8)] # see Note 1 2 input correction table filename: rp110590_cor.tab output qpoe file name: rp90_out event definition: medium SCC- UTC conversion table is calibrated to SCC 110883482.0000 first qpoe gti time = J.D. 2448062.97604379, SCC 1606720.00000000 last qpoe gti ...

Independent University of Moscow: vice-president for research, . ... 1971 Graduated from a mathematics oriented highschool in Moscow . ... 1976 Master of sciences summa cum laude in Mathematics, Moscow State University (Lomonosov) . ... 2001 Editor-in-chief of the "Moscow Mathematical Journal" . ... 2005 Director of Poncelet Russian-French laboratory (LIFR-MI2P) of CNRS and the Independent University of Moscow . ... Mathematics seminar of the Independent University of Moscow, vol. ... Moscow Math. ...

... Components For Gas Analysers . Russian High Technologies . ... Optical Unit for Portable IR-Gas Analyzer . ... Opto Pairs for Gas Analysers . ... One of detectors of the opto-pair has the sensitivity range within absorption band of analysed gas (near 3.2 microns for CH 4 ; 3.4 microns for C n H m and 4.26 microns for CO 2 ). ... Opto Pairs for Gas Analysers The Opto Pairs have been developed for gas infrared spectro-analyzing apparatus as base component of optical units of the apparatus . ...

Units and elements of flight and airborne systems . ... Power supply modules. Drives for mechanical units. Control systems. ... Onboard units for various applications: . Power supply modules MVIP for onboard instrumentation of the Spectr-R ? Radioastron mission. ... Baloon control console for SKU-PM balloon. It performs acquisition of attitude data, state of the air-gas system and controls the air-gas system units, light and anti-ice devices. ... Balloon control panel and console . ...

... Up: Science Software Applications . ... It has extensions for creating GUI (Tk) and object-oriented ([incr tcl]) applications. Several Tcl-based tools that may be used for astronomical and other scientific applications have been created and are discussed. One example is ptcl , which registers PGPLOT functions as Tcl commands, creating a powerful interactive plotting package. ... Both programs use the same C code, Tcl commands, and [incr tcl] classes; only the GUIs are different. ...

. XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ssclib (ssclib-3.29.3) [xmmsas_20070708_1801-7.1.0] . Meta Index / Home Page / Miscellaneous utilities . Author: Clive Page (University of Leicester, cgp@star.le.ac.uk) . This subroutine returns a number of a free I/O unit, i.e. one that is not currently allocated to and file. The calling sequence is: . SUBROUTINE getFreeIoUnit(nunit) INTEGER, INTENT(out) :: nunit ! unit number free for use . XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2007-07-08

For circular orbits around Earth, we found . ... The distance of a satellite from the center of Earth in meters is an inconveniently big number, even before we raise it to the 3rd power. ... SQRT (25 638 838) = 5063.5 From this . ... T= 5063.5 seconds SQRT(r') 3 = 5063 sec r'SQRT=(r') . This is the practical form of Kepler's 3rd law for Earth satellites. ... International communication satellites are in the equatorial plane of the Earth and have orbits with a 24-hour period. ...

NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: Eugene Edzards Covert O RAL H ISTORY: 22 June 1999 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis / St ... in Aeronautical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis / St. Paul, MMinnesota 1948 Sc.D. in Aeronautical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, ... Journal of Applied Science 22, no. ... AIAA Journal, 8, no. ... AIAA Journal, Vol. ...

... HST . ... Data . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... This FORM is a quick tool for flux conversion between diverse unit systems. ... INPUT FLUX or MAGNITUDE UNITS CLEAR Jy W/m2/Hz W/m2/um W/cm2/um erg/cm2/s/Hz erg/cm2/s/A photons/m2/w/um photons/cm2/s/A AB magnitude magnitude V magnitude U magnitude B magnitude R magnitude I magnitude J magnitude H magnitude K magnitude L magnitude L1 magnitude M magnitude N magnitude Q . ... Enter the Input Flux or Magnitude Value : . ...

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... 13th European VLBI Network Symposium . and Users Meeting . on September 20-23, 2016. ... 13th European VLBI Network Symposium and Users Meeting on September 20-23, 2016. ... Year book "Ephemerides of Minor Planets for 2016" on-line . ...

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... Telescopes . ... The time requests are accepted in an electronic version with on-line form in Russian or English. ... Unregistered request will be disregarded by the Large Telescopes Programm Committee. In exclusive cases the secreatry of the Committee is entitled to accept an observational time request given permission of the Chairman of the Committee or the director of the SAO RAS. The Program Committee considers generally one time request submitted by the principal applicant. ...

Next: The exercise level Up: Using Ceilidh as a Student Previous: Using Ceilidh as a Student . ... This menu is identical whether it is obtained from the system level of Ceilidh using the sc command, or by entering Ceilidh with a -c argument. ... Course Summary button) If the teacher remembers to keep the information up-to-date, this command gives you a summary of the timetable for your course, with . ... ceilidh -c pr1 . ... If you entered the course level from the system level using first ceilidh . ...

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