... 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. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... In the course of conducting space experiments operated from the ground, i.e. work stations located at TsNII RTK (St.-Petersburg) and, subsequently, at RSC Energia (city of Korolev), ISS onboard control robot-manipulator is provided using dedicated software (S/W). ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... Tracking stations will be selected in accordance with the schedule issued daily by the General Operative Control Group (GOCG) in Lavochkin Association with the gaps in operations during spacecraft contact with the control stations (CS). ... Communication frequencies (carrier): high data rate information transmission downlink from the SRT ­ 15.000 GHz; uplink synchronization ­ 7.2075 GHz; downlink synchronization ­ 8.400 GHz. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . Robot Exploration . ... Originally Discovery had been set to launch on 1 November, but this was delayed when fatigue cracks were found in the structure of its External Tank. ... A little bit of trivia is that Discovery has actually made the only shuttle-era Christmas time flight to date, this was STS-103 ,€а a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999. ...

... Credit Copyright: NASA , Kennedy Space Center Explanation: Space Shuttle Discovery launches while the Space Shuttle Columbia is readied for a future mission. Space shuttles are launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ... This mission is most famous for carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. ... Publications with keywords: space shuttle Discovery - space shuttle Columbia . Publications with words: space shuttle Discovery - space shuttle Columbia . ... Discovery in Twilight . ...

... JWST . ... Flight operations is the near real-time activity of the STScI Science & Operations Center (S&OC) to obtain and capture the science data from JWST. ... The Flight Operations System (FOS) is the integrated software and hardware that supports flight operations for JWST and real-time interaction with the observatory for both routine and contingency operations. ... The FOS receives all telemetry data from the observatory, both real-time engineering data and recorded engineering and science...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Commanding . ... In a typical robotic observing scenario, each afternoon, a telescope control computer obtains a set of objects to observe from its home institution from a command or script file. ... The file is then transferred to the telescope control computer at the Winer Observatory in Sonoita. ... The Iowa control computer then begins processing the telrun.sls file. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

... August 8, 1995 . Columbia Waits, Discovery Launches . Credit: NASA , Kennedy Space Center . Explanation: Space Shuttle Discovery launches while the Space Shuttle Columbia is readied for a future mission. ... This mission is most famous for carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. The Hubble Space Telescope is the largest public optical telescope ever to operate in orbit, and because it is above Earth's atmosphere it's photographs are more clear than any ground based telescope. ...

... A Web browser with Java support and an account to establish a secure Internet HTTP connection to the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), is everything needed in order to use the new Control Center System (CCS). Then full access to the telemetry of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is given (Figure 2). A public version of CCS is also available. ... Rifkin, A. 1997, Reengineering the Hubble Space Telescope Control Center System, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. ...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... The necessity of simultaneous access to one communication channel by many users, e.g., in satellite communication systems or cellular telephony, has led to the development of the corresponding standards: FDMA (Frequency Division Multiple Access) and TDMA (Frequency Division Multiple Access). ... There is a number of ideas for chaotic signal applications in multiple-access systems, but as a rule, chaotic signals are used there only as efficient and versatile means of quasi-noise signal formation. ...

Lectures . ... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2010-2011 Lecture Series 2010-2011 ? Top Ten Discoveries of the Phoenix Misson to Mars? by Suzanne Young . ... Lecture Series 2010-2011 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Amateur Astronomers Medal . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... honing the skills of performing the tasks of operating the orbital (suborbital) spaceship in a normal autonomous flight and in case of occurrence of off-optimum situations; . ... preparing for conducting visual observations, photographing and video filming envisaged by the flight program; . ... preparing the astronaut's body to the effect of space flight factors, honing the skills of operating the spaceborne medical facilities, rendering self and mutual aid; . ...

... Monitor short-term and long-term performance of all pipeline supported instrument modes, to assure that ESO delivers astronomical data of known and controlled quality . Follow the execution of instrument calibration plans; work with Paranal Science Operations to maintain calibration plans . Process all pipeline supported calibration data; ingest certified calibration products into the Archive . Create associations for all pipeline supported science data and archive them . ...

The Discovery of the Galilean Satellites . ... Probably the most significent contribution that Galileo Galilei made to science was the discovery of the four satellites around Jupiter that are now named in his honor. Galileo first observed the moons of Jupiter on January 7, 1610 through a homemade telescope. He originally thought he saw three stars near Jupiter, strung out in a line through the planet. ... Galileo's Observations of Jupiter's Moons . ... Jupiter . ...

Optical Communication Experiment using Very Small Optical transmitter with SLR station National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Space Communications System Laboratory Hiroo Kunimori and VSOTA TEAM Sep 24, 2012 WPLTN Technical Workshop@St.Petersburg, Russia Table of Contents Backgound:HODOYOSHI Project JapaneseHODOYOHI= Reasonable Reliability Engineering to develop series of 50kg Satellite. ... How to share wavelength communication beam and ranging beams. ...

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This groups includes about 200 communication satellites ("comsats") scattered in synchronous orbits above the Earth's equator. ... 6 Earth radii (42,000 km or 26,000 miles), these satellite make one orbit per day, and therefore as the Earth turns, they always stay above the same ground station. ... Still another application is the 24-satellite network of the "Global Positioning System" (GPS), in circular orbits at distances of about 4.1 Earth radii (26,000 km or 16,000 miles). ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... space flight . ... space physics . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... NASA postpones space shuttle Discovery launch . ... NASA has postponed the launch of space shuttle Discovery to no earlier than 4:05 a.m. EST November 30. ... It is essential we repair this hardware before we fly the mission, and we will take the time to properly understand and fix the failure before we launch." ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

It was one great step for mankind, and it was taken at 12.56 pm on 21 July, Australian Eastern Time, just 30 years ago. Neil Armstrong's first steps on the Moon were watched by six hundred million people," says Dr John Reynolds of CSIRO Parkes Observatory . And the signals from the Moon were received by the Honeysuckle Creek tracking station in the mountains outside Canberra and Parkes in NSW, as well as NASA 's Goldstone station in California." ... Tel: (02) 6861 1700 . ...