... 4 November 1994 . orbit . ... 0.0128 . ... orbit period . ... satellite mass . 1950 kg . scientific payload mass . 550 kg . ... For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . 1997-2002 SMIS IKI RAN and SRC "PLANETA" Moscow, Russia. ...

... ACS Instrument Handbook . ... Advanced Camera for Surveys Instrument Handbook for Cycle 20 > Chapter 3: Introduction to ACS > 3.3 Instrument Design . ... The nonfunctioning HRC has a 1024 x 1024 SITe CCD, with 21 x 21 µm pixels that provided ~0.028 x 0.025 arcsecond/pixel spatial resolution with critical sampling at 6300 å. This gave the HRC a nominal 29 x 26 arcsecond field of view. ... The ACS design incorporates two main optical channels: one for the WFC, and one which is shared by the HRC and...

... Instrument Status . Science Verification . ... CRIRES . ... SV observer shall submit their proposals using the Science Verification proposal template Proposers are asked to provide at least a short summary of the science goal, coordinates and magnitudes of GS and science target, a finding chart , the observing wavelength ID, as specified in appendix A of the UM and DIT, NDIT settings of science detectors as computed with the exposure time calculator (see below). ... with a 0.2 arcsec slit. ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... LX600 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchòÄâ series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... LightBridge Series . ...

Marses Instrument . ... Currently we use a Tem-fast 48 sounding instrument that is based on time domain electromagnetic sounding technology. ... Areas of application are following: . ... hidrogeological research, . ... Despite many competitors' instruments with similar areas of application, Tem-fast 48 has reasonable advantages among small depth sounding devices. ... The Tem-fast 48 sounding instrument consists of following devices: . ... The block diagram of the sounding instrument is outlined below. ...

... Thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis . ... TOF-SIMS analysis . Total conductivity, Seebeck coefficient and ion transference number measurements in controlled atmos . ... Processing of ceramic materials, electrode systems and electrochemical cells . ... SIMS analysis is based on exposure of the sample surface with primary ions possessing some definite energy, which is partially consumed by the sample and induces emission of sÍ-called secondary ions. ... Spatial resolution: 60 nm . ...

PLANCK --- UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE A. L˜ahteenm˜aki 1 , M. Tornikoski 1 , J. Aatrokoski 1 , E. Valtaoja 2 1 Mets˜ahovi Radio Observatory, Helsinki University of Technology Mets˜ahovintie 114, 02540 Kylm˜al˜a, Finland alien@kurp.tkk.fi 2 Tuorla Observatory, University of Turku, Finland The Planck satellite is a European Space Agency ESA's mission capable of mapping the whole sky at several radio wavelengths. ...

Next: Preface Up: Front Cover Previous: Front Cover . ... VLT First Light . ... CONICA: The high resolution near-infrared camera for the ESO VLT . The STScI NICMOS Calibration Pipeline . ... The Evolution of Stars seen with ISOCAM - the Need for NICMOS and VLT Follow Up. ... HST NICMOS Observations of Circumstellar Matter Around CYG X-3 . ... HST-NICMOS Observations of Galactic Bulges: Red Nuclei in Nearby Galaxies . ... Investigating the Evolution of Quasar Host Galaxies with NICMOS . ...

HIGH RESOLUTION IONOSPHERIC MASS SPECTROMETER P-11 . ... Onboard mass-spectrometric equipment for study of neutral and ionized components of Earth upper atmosphere. Mass-spectrometer P-11 is one of P-series modifications of the on board radio-frequency monopole spectrometers. ... The instruments of P-series have passed successful approbation in space experiments aboard geophysical rockets MP-12, launched for investigation of Earth upper atmosphere (Ref. ... Measured mass number range, AMU - 1.. ...

... 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...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Publications overview . ... ATNF facilities . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Images . ... The MAPPIT (Masked APerture Plane Interference Telescope) instrument has been used for NRM observations at the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope. ...

Integration and performance of the flight configuration SIR on TELIS P. Yagoubov1, G. de Lange1, A. de Lange, M. Romanini, R. Hoogeveen1, V. Koshelets2, G. Wagner3, M. Birk 1Nation 3 al Institute for ... Netherlands 2Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, IREE, Russia 3Institute for Remote Sensing Technology, DLR, Germany Abstract TELIS (Terahertz and submm Limb Sounder) is a cooperation between European institutes, DLR, RAL and SRON, to build a three- ... LO frequency 624.93 GHz. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Coronado Instruments manufactures optical instruments for Solar observing. In addition to dedicated Solar telescopes they manufacture Solar instrumentation and offer consultation on Solar instrument projects. Last Update November 17, 2004 . Listed Since November 17, 2004 . ... 520) 740 1561 . ... Web Site . ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Next: The Transmission Gratings Up: The Instruments Previous: The Instruments . ... A conventional cross-grid charge detector reads out the photo-induced charge cloud and the electronics determine an arrival time to 16s, and the position with a resolution of about 18 m or 0.37 arcsec. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Space Research, in collaboration with Lincoln Laboratories, developed the detector system and manufactured the CCDs; Lockheed-Martin integrated the instrument. ...

WPLTN Technical Workshop . ... WPLTN-2012) . ... of the International Scientific Technical Conference WPLTN-2012 . ... Having an opinion that the collocation of various space geodesy measurement technologies has a fundamental role in increasing the accuracy of fundamental and applied positioning, navigation and timing provision, the International Scientific Technical Conference WPLTN-2012 has come to the following conclusions: 2.1. ... Web-page . ... Resolution of the conference WPLTN-2012 . ...

... ARC 3.5m | Instrument Summary . ... ARCES (Echelle) : the ARC Echelle spectrograph, a high resolution (R~31,500) echelle spectrograph that observes the entire wavelength range from 3200 å to 10000 in a single image on a 2048x2048 CCD. This instrument is permanently mounted at the NA1 port. ... In addition to the facility instruments, several visitor instruments have been used at the 3.5m, and some of these are available to the ARC observing community by contacting the instrument PIs: . ...

... The project assumes creation of an international space observatory - the interferometer "Earth - Space - Space" in order to perform of astronomical investigations in millimeter, submillimeter and infrared regions with extremely high sensitivity (to a few nanoJanskies units of flux density in continuum spectrum) and extremely high angular resolution (to a parts of microsecond of arc or, possibly, nanosecond). ... radio-interferometric channels of the system "Space - Space", region 0.2 - 3 mm; . ...

Home | ... Fisica Sanitaria | ... Amber SPG . ... The near-infrared / red focal instrument of the VLTI, called AMBER will operate between 1 and 2.5 µm in a first phase (2001-2003) with two UTs. This instrument has been designed for three beams to be able to perform images through phase closure techniques. ... The instrument has been designed to be used with two or three beams, thus enabling also the use of closure phase techniques. ... AMBER VLTI focal instrument home page . ... Simone Busoni . ...

NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: Robert Edwin Smylie O RAL H ISTORY: 17 April 1999 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: BS in Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi ... Houston: NASA Johnson Space Center, 1972. ... BIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES: "NASA Key Personnel Change - 2 April 1980," Robert E. Smylie Biographical File, Scientific and Technical Information Center, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII ASP Conference Series, Vol. 314, 2004 F. Ochsenbein, M. Al len, and D. Egret, eds. JPEG 2000 Compression for the Downlink and Archiving of Astronomical Data Janet C. Rountree, Brian N. Webb Science Applications International Corporation, 101 N. Wilmot Rd., ... JPEG 2000, the new International Standard for still image compression, has many unique features that offer advantages for users of astronomical data. ... WT=Wavelet transform. ...