... This computer reconstruction of the surface of Venus was created from data from the Magellan spacecraft. ... The Earth Also Rises . ... The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft was launched in 1966 to map the lunar surface in preparation for the Apollo moon landings. ... Because Mercury orbits so close to the Sun, it is never seen far from the Sun, and so is only visible near sunrise or sunset. If trailing the Sun, Mercury will be visible for several minutes before it follows the Sun behind the Earth. ...

Upper stage Block DM-SLB has delivered spacecraft (SC) Measat-3a with a mass of about 2.4 tons into its target geotransfer orbit. The launch took place under the Land Launch program using Zenit-2SB launch vehicle (lift-off at 1 hour 50 minutes Moscow Time). ... The mission control for the upper stage with the SC was provided by the Technical Management (The Technical Manager is the President and Designer General of the S.P.Korolev RSC Energia V.A. Lopota). ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Next: Third: Create a session Up: Starting up correlator control Previous: First: Log on to б  Contents . Both the correlator interface and the correlator spectra display program are run from lbaccc . ... lbaccc . ... A more complete explanation of SPD, including available commands, is found in Appendix C. Next: Third: Create a session Up: Starting up correlator control Previous: First: Log on to б  Contents . ...

... Peter J.K. "Jeff" Wisoff (Ph.D) . NASA Astronaut (former) . ... A veteran of four space flights, STS-57 in 1993, STS-68 in 1994, STS-81 in 1997 and STS-92 in 2000, Dr. Wisoff has logged a total of 42 days, 56 hours, 1 minute and 48 seconds in space, including , 19 hours and 53 minutes of EVA time in three space walks. ... Following 183 orbits of the Earth in 269 hours and 46 minutes, the eleven-day mission ended with Space Shuttle Endeavour landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California. ...

... Launch Date: 1966-08-10 . ... The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... The spacecraft was placed in a cislunar trajectory and injected into an elliptical lunar orbit for data acquisition. ... An 80-millimeter lens system was used to obtain Medium-Resolution (MR) photos, and a 610-millimeter lens system was used for High-Resolution (HR) photos. ...

Lunar Orbiter 1 . ... The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... The spacecraft was placed in a cislunar trajectory and injected into an elliptical lunar orbit for data acquisition. ... An 80-millimeter lens system was used to obtain Medium-Resolution (MR) photos, and a 610-millimeter lens system was used for High-Resolution (HR) photos. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Rockets . ... New Shepard taking off (image credit: Blue Origin) . ... This is a reusable, vertical takeoff, vertical landing two-part suborbital space vehicle. The two sections of New Shepard are a pressurised crew module or capsule for six passengers (with its own launch escape system) and a propulsion module (or booster rocket) propelled by a Blue Origin BE-3 liquid propellant rocket motor. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

. Computer Ephemeris. Lunar equatorial positions. Explanations. Each row contains at 0 h and 12 h of Time Dynamical Terrestrial: month, day, apparent right ascension (hours, minutes, seconds), apparent declination (degrees, minutes, seconds of arc) and geocentric distance (in Earth's radii).

... You are a hot-shot rocket pilot. ... So whenever there is a difficult rescue mission to be carried out in space, they call on you. ... You will use computer simulators, which accurately model the motions of a rocketship. ... They should run on any computer with a web browser and an internet connection. ... Your spacecraft is a yellow sliver. ... Your mission is to rescue Luke. ... His spacecraft has run out of fuel, and unless you rescue him, will continue to drift there for billions of years. ...

... Plots of the 4 wapps (.ps) ( .pdf ) : . ... top plot: this is how many seconds off the wapp clocks were measured to be from the ntp servers on the network. The colors are for the 4 wapps. 2nd plot: This is the offset (in seconds) that the ntpd pll time loop was using. ... Notice that there are no changes from 9.06 till 9.31 when the loop parmeters were reset. 2nd plot: The frequency offset used in the wapp4 pll loop. 3rd plot: The time offset of wapp4 time relative to the 3 primary ntp servers. ...

... Instead, we only get timing information when data are dumped to the ground from the onboard computer from which we may infer when things happened. ... A UDL is always dumped from the spacecraft prior to the start of a science exposure, effectively flagging the start of the observation. ... For RAPID mode observations, the data are dumped as soon as they are taken. ... For ACCUM mode observations, a second UDL is dumped at the end of the exposure and prior to reading out any science data. ...

First Mid Term Date has Changed . Classes on Friday . ... Second Midterm Date is Changed to May 29 . ... Local Astronomy Stuff . ... Excellent Overview of the Early Universe . ... First Midterm Results . First Midterm Answers . Second Midterm Results . Second Midterm Answers . ... Study Guide for the First Midterm . Study Guide for the Second Midterm . ... WEEK 1: ANCIENT COSMOLOGY . ... The Universe in the first 0.01 -0.1 seconds . The Universe in the first 0.1 -1 second . ...

... July 30, 1999 . The Sea of Tranquillity: 5 Seconds To Impact . Credit: NASA . ... Rapidly transmitting a series of pictures to ground controllers, its camera recorded this one at an altitude of about 11 kilometers, 5 seconds before impacting the lunar surface. ... Its very successful mission in lunar orbit complete, the Lunar Prospector is scheduled to crash into a crater near the Moon's south pole in an effort to confirm the presence of water-ice by studying the impact's debris cloud. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

Armagh Observatory, 21 December 2001: . ... The Armagh Observatory's contribution, led by astronomers Simon Jeffery and Gerry Doyle , is to develop new computational tools to study the atmosphere of the Sun and other stars. ... Computers will communicate with one another using the grid, and computing power will become a commodity just like electricity. ... FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Simon Jeffery or Mark Bailey at the Armagh Observatory (Tel.: ... WWW contact: webmaster@star.arm.ac.uk . ...

... The first person to orbit the Earth was the Russian Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The first American to do so was John Glenn, who completed three orbits on February 20, 1962; more than 26 years later, at age 77, Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle. ... Any manned mission faces the problem of safe return to Earth, which requires getting rid of the huge amount of energy associated with orbital motion. A spacecraft in low Earth orbit moves at about 24 times the velocity of sound. ...

... When the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by the planet Uranus in January 1986, astronomers were treated to their first close-up glimpse of the satellites that orbit the seventh planet. ... But by far the most intriguing of those 15 satellites was a jigsaw-puzzle world called Miranda . ... How dark was it at Miranda? One of the Voyager scientists put it this way: Taking pictures in the Uranus system is like trying to do photography in a ballpark at night when the only light comes from a single candle. ...

... Currently a 50MHz 486DX PCBrand personal computer, located on the fourth floor in the warm room in lab number 443C, is used to control the charge coupled devices (CCDs). ... The PC is connected to a monitor and keyboard in the warm room and another pair in the dome itself. ... An intercom system simplifies communication between the dome and the warm room. ... The second intercom in the dome is used for two way communication between the dome and the warm room. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...

. NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . Piloted Flights . Cosmonauts. Astronauts. Crews . People . Launches . Spacecraft . Launch Vehicles. Rocket Engines . Space Science . Conferences. Exhibitions . History . Companies. Agencies. Organizations . Another Spacecraft . This second part of the story deals with actual development of the TKS spaceship. 'The U.S. TKS' . Das MЮrsProjekt . 50 years ago, Wernher von Braun published his ideas on piloted Mars mission.