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. ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

... 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): . ...

... Orbiter . Payload of the Orbiter . ... the instruments . ... ORBITER . Index . Instrument . Mass (kg) . ARGUS . ... visible and IR mapping spectrometer . ... planetary IR Fourier spectrometer . ... mapping visible and thermal radiometer . ... mapping high-resolut. spectrophotometer . ... multichannel optical s spectrometer . ... quadrupole mass-spectrometer . ... fast omnidir. energy-mass ion analyzer . ... wave complex . ... platform for ARGUS instruments . ... MASS-MEM . ...

... This recently released image, from the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope's STIS instrument, offers a striking view of another kind of ring around Saturn - pole encircling rings of ultraviolet aurora. Destination: Moon . ... The Red Spider Planetary Nebula . ... Many similar images of a Moon devoid of life are familiar to denizens of the space age. ... The Largest Rock Known . ... NGC 5307: A Symmetric Planetary Nebula . ... NGC 5307 is an example of a planetary nebula with a spiral shape. ...

... Mars . ... Mars spacecraft ready for September 21 orbit insertion . ... NASA s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft is nearing its scheduled September 21 insertion into martian orbit after completing a 10-month interplanetary journey of 442 million miles (711 million kilometers). ... Following orbit insertion, MAVEN will begin a six-week commissioning phase that includes maneuvering the spacecraft into its final orbit and testing its instruments and science-mapping commands. ...

... Instructions for saving » Search for another transcript » NPR home page Profile: NASA to launch probe to Pluto January 17, 2006 from Morning Edition RENEE MONTAGNE, host: If all goes well, NASA will launch the first spacecraft to Pluto today. The New Horizons probe will be launched on the fastest interplanetary rocket ever. ... NPR's Richard Harris explains. ... Max Mutchler from the Space Telescope Science Institute says the astronomer who asked for the pictures was then too busy to look at them. ...

... In summer 1994, the biggest news in astronomy was the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. During this school year, Jupiter will charge back into the limelight with the arrival of the Galileo spacecraft (see figure 8 ). On Dec. 7, following a tortuous six-year ramble through the solar system, Galileo will begin its two-year mission studying Jupiter and its gaggle of moons. ... Besides the camera, Galileo will carry instruments capable of identifying minerals on Jupiter's moons. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... News . ... The rocket and space system Zenith-3SLB consisting of a launch vehicle (LV) Zenit-2SB with the upper stage Block DM-SLB has put the 3.2-ton telecommunications spacecraft Intelsat 18 into its target geotransfer orbit. ... The mission analysis was conducted by RSC Energia specialists within the Lead Operations Control Team working at the Mission Control Center for upper stages and unmanned spacecraft (RSC Energia at Korolev). ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... SHANNON W. LUCID (Ph.D.) . nasa astronaut (former) . ... She is qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews. ... A veteran of five space flights, Dr. Lucid has logged 5,354 hours (223 days) in space. ... Dr. Lucid retired from NASA in January 2012. ... In completing this flight, Dr. Lucid logged 838 hours and 54 minutes in space. ... FEBRUARY 2012 ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Concept Spacecraft . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... October . ... By admin September 30, 2011 Posted in: Human Exploration . Gemini Spacecraft: The red and gold spheres in the Equipment Module are propellant tanks and the red cylinder in the nose is the parachute pack. ... Image credit: NASA) . ... Amazingly in 2011, an outfit called Space Operations Inc proposed launching updated Geminis (rebadged as Eclipse spacecraft) for commercial clients! ...

... Average resolution at altitude H=668 km . ... Swath width at H=668 km and inclination of beginning of swath 20.48 degrees . ... Resolution at H=668 км . ... Наименование параметра . ... 1 канале . ... Полоса обзора при H=668 км . ... 1-5 спектральной зоне, не более . ... 1 спектральной зоне . 0,48-0,52 мкм . ... 0,915-0,997 мкм . ... 1-4 канал . ... 1-4 каналов . ... Спектральные характеристики каналов (по уровню 0,5): . ... For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... Ciel Espace, nouvelle formule, c'est . des actualit†йs . des reportages . ... les plus belles images de l'Univers d†йcrypt†йes pour vous . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Une sonde am†йricaine explorera Jupiter en 2016 . ... 04/04/2016 - Une Terre en formation autour d'une †йtoile proche€а? . ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Июль 1998 . ... Дата: 21 июля 1998 (1998-07-21) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Today On Galileo - July 19, 1998 Привет всем! ... TODAY ON GALILEO July 19, 1998 The fifth encounter of the Galileo Europa Mission starts late today, seven months after the start of the spacecraft's mission extension. ... The first in the series was the last encounter of Galileo's primary mission. ...

IRREGULAR SATELLITES . ... Planetary satellites in the solar system are divided into two types: Regular satellites orbit in circular, equatorial orbits close to the planet. ... Irregular satellites orbit the planet much further out. ... Examples of irregular satellite orbits . ... Unlike the regular satellites which formed with the planet, irregulars originally formed in heliocentric space (eg the asteroid belt) and were later captured in a closed orbit around the planet. ... Nature, 2004). ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... The Sych-2 satellite is being developed as a part of the space optical-range Earth observation system by the State Design Office of Yuzhnoye and built by the Industrial Association Yuzhny Machine Building Plant in cooperation w ith other space industry entities upon the state order of the National Space Agency of Ukraine . ...

The best portrait book of the solar system I have ever seen is Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes , by Michael Benson, but with so many interesting missions going on at the moment, this is fast becoming outdated. ... Another stunning image from the Cassini spacecraft: The moon Enceladus . ... The seventies were the first golden age of robotic solar system exploration. ... First stop: Pluto and its satellite system . ... The three main categories of Kuiper belt objects known are: . ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 1 orbit January 10, 2003 Abstract Create a FITS timeseries \HK-like" le from the ODF Spacecraft Reconstructed Orbit File. ... Both sets of values will be written into a standard OGIP-compliant FITS binary extension table with a TIME column value, derived from a start, stop and sampling interval time, each speci ed by the user. ... StartANDEndNotInODFRange (error) Start AND End times selected not congruent with input ODF obs times. ... 7 Output Files 1. ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...