... SMIS : Space Monitoring Information Support laboratory . Russia's Weather : State Meteorological Center Weather Forecast . Space Weather service : ACE real time solar wind data and simple geomagnetic activity forecast. ... World Fire Web : Space Research Institute (IKI) node . Sputnik : Joint project of SRC Planeta, Rosgidromet and Space Research Institute (IKI) . ... Today's Space Weather : Presented by the Space Environment Center . ... Back to the Space Research Institute Home Page ...

The XPA messaging system provides seamless communication between many kinds of Unix programs, including X programs and Tcl/Tk programs. It also provides an easy way for users to communicate with these XPA-enabled programs by executing XPA client commands in the shell or by utilizing such commands in scripts. ... A program becomes an XPA-enabled server by defining named points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with other client programs (and users). ...

The FITS "World Coordinate System" (WCS) standard defines keywords and usage that provide for the description of astronomical coordinate systems in a FITS image header. ... I: "Representations of world coordinates in FITS" , Greisen, E.W. & Calabretta, M.R. (2002), Astronomy & Astrophysics , 395 , 1061-1075. ... This diagram illustrating Bonne's projection with conformal latitude +35 was produced by WCSLIB , a C implementation of the coordinate transformations defined in the FITS WCS papers. ...

OptInt PmWiki . MROI Delay Line / . ... Attach | ... MROI Delay Line Design Contract . ... Document Management . Systems Engineering Docs . ... Design Documentation . ... Released FDR Documents . ... MROI DL Production SW Contract . ... Preliminary Design Review . Software Design Documentation . ... MROI Fast Tip-Tilt Contract . ... Review Documents . Design Documents . ... MROI . ... MROI DL Design Contract Private Material . ... PmWiki . ... Delay Line Systems Engineering Documents . ...

... System for maintaining reference files and tables used to calibrate HST observational datasets. ... COSTAR: Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement. ... Used for archiving HST data. ... Basic tool used to retrieve files from a remote system. Ask your system manager for information about using FTP. ... STARCAT: System used for retrieving archived HST data. ... STEIS: Space Telescope Electronic Information System. ... STSDAS: Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System. ...

... Next: Space and the Up: GUIs and Visualization Previous: A Graphical Planning . ... The WIYN 3.5m Telescope Control System features a platform independent, network transparent protocol for distributing telescope control data to both local and remote sites. ... The WIYN Engineering Data Subsystem (EDS) is a spacecraft-style telemetry system that sends telescope telemetry (encoders, currents, voltages, pointing data, etc.) in a machine-independent format to clients connected across a network. ...

... a utility program that enables the user to interact with the UNIX operating system. Commands entered by the user are passed by the shell to the operating system which carries them out. ... The user may select which one they wish to use. a character at the start of the command line which indicates that the shell is ready to receive your commands. ... This is assumed to be the keyboard unless input is redirected or piped from a file or another command. the destination for information from a command. ...

... Capability of space means for the solution of problems of military character . ... Classification and functions of space systems of military purpose(assignment) . ... Ground complex of maintenance of launch and control of space vehicles . ... Capability of space systems of optical reconnaissance . ... Complexes topographical and earthresource shooting on base of "Zenit" space vehicle . ... Space vehicle for optical-electronic reconnaissance . ... System with space vehicle on low-altitude orbits . ...

... In order to realize the optimal scientific return from the VLT, ESO has undertaken to develop an end-to-end data flow system from proposal entry to science archive. The VLT Data Flow System (DFS) is being designed and implemented by the DFS Group (ESO Internal access only) in collaboration with VLT Division and Instrumentation Division . ... VLT Control System Interface . ... OBs are the quantum of data that flows within the DFS, collecting state, data and status information as they flow. ...

... History-NASA Centers . ... STS Recordation Oral History Project . This effort involved the collection of history from key individuals formerly and currently associated with the agency?s Space Shuttle Program (SSP), focusing on the Space Shuttle Orbiter and its related components. ... Space Shuttle Main Engines Chief Engineer and Project Manager, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL . ... Space Shuttle Main Engines Project Manager, Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL . ...

... Using UNIX System Calls and Library Functions . ... To use system calls and library functions in a C program we simply call the appropriate C function. Examples of standard library functions we have met include the higher level I/O functions -- fprintf() , malloc() .. ... For most system calls and library functions we have to include an appropriate header file. e.g. stdio.h, math.h . ... Information on nearly all system calls and library functions is available in manual pages. ...

... This is possible at modest cost due to the low moments of inertia of the telescope and enclosure. ... This same performance will be achieved in higher winds when the telescope enclosure is facing away from the wind, or by using wind screens. ... The telescope system (MILT) will be remotely operable with an on-site operator's assistance by an astronomer located at one of the ARC member institutions. ... Mean Wind Speed . ... Offsets > 10 deg: 1 arc sec rms max . ... 5 sec max, tracking to tracking . ...

Open Systems Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... This book is designed to provide interested individuals and organizations with an overview of open systems and the work being done to achieve them. ... This section is organized using a descriptive model of an open systems environment developed by the IEEE PI 003.0 Working Group, which is developing the Guide to POSIX-based Open System Architecture. ... Standards for open systems 13 . Chapter 3: The open systems environment (OSE) 15 . ...

Next: Marginal nights Up: Special problems Previous: Nonlinearity . If you want to either plan or reduce observations made in your own non-standard system, both the planning and the reduction programs let you declare the system as NONE or OTHER . Use NONE when you want to work entirely in the instrumental system, and OTHER when you want to use a special system of standard stars. ... You can maintain your own files of standard stars for your private system, or for your instrumental system. ...

... The regions can be specified via the outunit parameter in either of two projection-plane coordinate systems, namely `detxy' and `xy'. ... The first choice corresponds to columns DETX and DETY of the standard XMM EPIC event list, the second to columns X and Y . ... This information is obtained from keywords in the header of the supplied event list. ... If outunit is given as `detxy' and if the supplied source list is a standard XMM EPIC product then in principle the event list is unnecessary. ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Research areas . ... Samara State Aerospace University Education Educational programs (English) Mechatronic Systems . ... The purpose of the Program is to train highly qualified specialists for work in the fields of science, engineering and technology in areas related to design and development of mechatronic systems using fluid power for various applications including aircraft engines control. ... o design and development of robotic and mechatronic systems; . ...

... Scientific data acquisition. Control of scientific instruments. ... The scientific data acquisition systems are designed to ensure the flexible control and optimal operation of various scientific instruments and, on the other hand, to comply with the standard interface of spacecraft service systems. ... Currently IKI develops scientific data acquisition systems for various spacecraft: . ... SSRNI                          CORONAS- Ph oton           2007 . ... onboard time etc. ... data bit rate . ...

Vertex Contract in Hindsight Computer driven control system design philosphy A contract for a complex software-driven system should include: 1. ... A complicated system should contain its own development system, i.e. it should be possible to program and reprogram the system from its own operating console or terminal. ... A general and flexible approach for our pointing system would be to have all the sensors and effectors connected to an upstairs unit that is driven by a fast Ethernet connection. ...

DEVCON for LAN Systems!! ... PSP LAN Systems develops products that provide network operating system services (such as file, print, transaction, security and directory) for multiple operating systems (OS/2, DOS, Windows and AIX). ... PSP LAN Systems has identified an API (or development tools) strategy that provides an application development environment with industry standard APIs for application portability and object frameworks to assist developers with code reuse. ...