... Taken from the NASA/JPL information summary "Our Solar System at a Glance". The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) automated spacecraft for solar system exploration come in many shapes and sizes. ... Electrical power is required to operate the spacecraft instruments and systems. ... Between 1959 and 1971, NASA spacecraft were dispatched to study the Moon and the solar environment; they also scanned the inner planets other than Earth -- Mercury , Venus and Mars . ...

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): . ...

... Upper stage Block DM design is based on Block D, which was originally developed under lunar program N1-L3 and the first time it successfully operated in flight was as a part of L1 complex (with Proton launch vehicle) on March 10, 1967. Upper stage Block DM features high reliability proven by more than 30 years of its operational history, and capacity for multiple burns of the main engine, which allows it to perform the required orbital maneuvers. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

MARS-96 . ... Spacecraft . ... This issue describes the MARS-96 robotic spacecraft scientific mission to Mars prepared according to the Federal Program of Space Exploration developed by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Space Agency. ... Information was provided by Space Research Institute, Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytic Chemistry, Lavochkin Research Association, Keldysh Applied Mathematics Institute, Flight Control Center and the Mars-96 scientific experiment teams. ...

... HST . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . ... HST Overview . ... Astronomer's Proposal Tool . ... NASA and The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) are pleased to announce the Cycle 24 Call for Proposals for Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Observations and funding for Archival Research and Theoretical Research programs. ... The Astronomer's Proposal Tools (APT), which is required for Phase I Proposal Submission will be made available/released for Cycle 24 Phase I use during the 2nd week of February 2016. ...

... Gemini IV - June 3-7, 1965 . ... Gemini IV was also the first flight to be controlled by the newly built Mission Operations Control Room (pronounced MOKE-R) in Houston, Texas. ... And for more memories and experiences from more than 700 remarkable people involved in the space program over the last 50 years, read their oral histories available on the JSC History Portal: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/oral_histories.htm . ... Return to JSC Oral History Website . ...

... European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-1) was launched on 17 July 1991, and the follow mission ERS-2 (with the same sensors and an Ozone monitoring instrument added) was launched on 21 April 1995. ... ERS-2 has a fixed repeat cycle of 35 days, and follows ERS-1 tracks with one day's delay. ... Swath width is 102.5 km (telemetered), spatial resolution is about 25x25 m. The Advanced SAR (ASAR) instrument is carried by ESA's ENVISAT satellite launched on 1 March 2002. ... Swath . ... Spatial Resolution...

... Ж.Ф. Родионова, А.А.Карлов, Т.П. Скобелева и др. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia; jeanna@sai.msu ru. ... Moscow State University, Vorobjovy Gory, 119899, Moscow, Russia. Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 34, October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... Rodionova J1., ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, jeanna@sai.msu.ru . ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute Lomonosov Moscow University, Russia; marss8@mail.ru . ...

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. ...

... Ballistics, navigation and flight control of the spacecraft, going to the L2 point of Sun-Earth system. ... and calculation algorithms have been developed: - an algorithm, building nominal trajectories for one impulse flights to the L2 point of Sun- Earth system, including a Moon swingby maneuver or not. - an algorithm, calculating corrections of spacecraft trajectory needed for the flight from Earth to halo orbit and for stationkeeping of the spacecraft moving in halo ...

... The software systems are described following the forward and backward data flow to/from the satellite: starting from the Observation Proposal reception and archiving, the long term observation scheduling up to the detailed weekly planning and telecommands sequence uplinking, and vice versa the scientific and housekeeping raw telemetry acquisition and archiving, quick look data analysis, data reformatting and distribution as a Final Observation Tape to the Observation Proposal PI. ...

Next: Library, Archive and Historic Up: Buildings, Grounds, Library and Previous: Disposal of the Schmidt . Mark Bailey, Apostolos Christou and David Asher have developed ideas for a new outdoor exhibit in the Observatory grounds, called `The Human Orrery'. ... The position of the proposed new Library, Archive and Historic Scientific Instruments building is shown in outline. ... Next: Library, Archive and Historic Up: Buildings, Grounds, Library and Previous: Disposal of the Schmidt M.E. Bailey . ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mercury . ... First spacecraft to orbit Mercury carries University of Michigan device . ... An onboard device called Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer (FIPS), designed and built at the University of Michigan, will take atmospheric measurements. ... FIPS will be the first plasma instrument to explore the plasmas in Mercury's space environment. ... Video about FIPS: . ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

Instrument . ... Scanning TV-sensor with on-board data recording system for global coverage mode . ... recording, direct transmission . ... IR-radiometer for global coverage and direct data transmission modes . ... The scientific instrument package onboard the Meteor-3 spacecraft provides for regular instant acquisition of images of cloudiness and Earth surface in visible and infra-red bands, data on air temperature and humidity, sea surface temperature and clouds temperature. ...

... 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. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Data Handling and Products > Data Reduction FAQ > The response curve leaves residual instrument features in my science. ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... Science Archive Facility . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... To can be avoided by flat-fielding the flux standard star spectrum with the same flat field as is used for the science data. ...

XmTel is intended for interactive remote telescope operation. ... The command set provides for several basic functions that enable slewing, pointing, fine guiding, and control of the telescope focus, reticle, and fans. ... XmTel is actively being used and developed with the Celestron Corrected Dall-Kirkham C20 telescope. ... Some NexStar features of the C20 -- the fan, temperature reading, and focus control -- are not presently available on other Celestron telescopes. ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... LX600 Series . ... LX200 Series . ... MeadeтАЩs new LX70 Series offers high-quality German equatorially mounted telescopes with slow-motion controls and heavy-duty steel tripods. ... Compatibility: Sensor Control Board for LX200 8" - 16" and LX600 10" - 14" models. ... LX600/LX200 Sensor Control Board (Left Forkarm). Compatibility: Sensor Control Board for LX200GPS 8" - 16" and LX600 10" - 14" models. ...

Ground Support of RadioAstron . Control and Tracking Stations . RadioAstron satellite control (command transmission, telemetry, orbit measurements) will be conducted from Evpatoria and Bear Lake control stations. ... Coarse orbit measurements will be carried out from control stations. Each measurement takes ten minutes. ... Orbit measurements at tracking stations give only radial component of spacecraft velocity but the measurements are going continuously during observing sessions. ...

... 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....