... HST Overview . ... Data Analysis . ... To restore and conserve an infrared capability on HST, NASA , together with Creare, Inc. , developed the NICMOS Cooling System (NCS). ... Nicmos Turbo-Brayton Cooler: Photograph Schematic . ... Aft Shroud Cooling System/NICMOS Cooling System Document (postscript). ... NICMOS Cooler flown on STS-95 as part of the HST Orbital Systems Test (HOST) payload . ... Creare Inc. , makers of the miniature Turbo-Brayton cooler to be used in the NICMOS Cooling System (NCS) ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... SM3B: Mission to Hubble . ... Explanation: Now complete, Servicing Mission 3B (SM3B) was really the fourth trip to the Hubble Space Telescope , as the originally planned mission 3 was split into two parts. Falling around planet Earth, about 320 nautical miles above the surface, the 13.2 meter long Great Observatory is pictured here in Space Shuttle Columbia's payload bay on March 5. ... Publications with keywords: Hubble space telescope - STS-109 . ... Carina Nebula Panorama from Hubble . ...

... 2002 March 14 . SM3B: Mission to Hubble . Credit: STS109 Crew , NASA . Explanation: Now complete, Servicing Mission 3B (SM3B) was really the fourth trip to the Hubble Space Telescope , as the originally planned mission 3 was split into two parts. ... Spacesuited astronaut Michael Massimino works under Hubble's "hood" while poised at the end of Columbia's Remote Manipulator System or robotic arm . ... The next Hubble service call, SM4, is planned for 2004 . ... About APOD | ...

Hubble Finds Oxygen Atmosphere On Jupiter's Moon Europa . Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have identified the presence of an extremely tenuous atmosphere of molecular oxygen around Jupiter's second moon, Europa . ... Europa's oxygen atmosphere is so tenuous that its surface pressure is barely one hundred billionth that of the Earth," said Principal Investigator Doyle Hall, of Johns Hopkins. ... The oxygen gas slowly leaks into space and must be replenished continuously. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... 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 Nasa : le successeur de Hubble sauv†й, la science sacrifi†йe . ... Cette mission de retour d'†йchantillons martiens, dont le d†йpart †йtait programm†й †а l'origine pour 2016, n'est donc toujours pas financ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Posted on December 3, 2015 | ... Continue Reading.. ... 10 Comments On 2March 2004 the European Space Agency (ESA) launched an ambitious and exciting robotic explorer into space, and you probably have heard its quite pretty name mentioned a lot lately. ... 2 Comments The year 2014 could see the first 3D printer brought into space, the first fare-paying passengers leave Planet Earth on the Virgin Galactic and the first test mission of a [ ] . ...

... 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. ...

... Astronomers and technicians strained to get a good view of the monitor that would soon show them the first picture taken with the newly "fixed" Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... Tension gave way to cheers and exuberant shouts as the image of a star appeared on the monitor, a star without any of the smeared light astronomers had come to expect from the telescope's flawed main mirror. ... Scientists had already begun work on improved versions of its scientific instruments before HST was even launched....

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... Bulletin Board . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... On board are seven astronauts that will perform the second Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission. ... Also on board Discovery is a new data recorder, which will allow much more data to be taken at the same time on HST, as well as a new Fine Guidance Sensor, which helps the telescope track on its targets. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Talk about Bad Astronomy on the BA Bulletin Board! ...

. Located in the focal plane of the telescope, PlanckтАЩs Low Frequency Instrument (LFI), and the High Frequency Instrument (HFI), are equipped with a total of 74 detectors covering nine frequency channels. These detectors must be cooled to temperatures around or below 20 Kelvin so that their heat does not swamp the faint microwave signals they are designed to detect. Credit: ESA/AOES Medialab)

... 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...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Integration of the NIRSpec instrument . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... One of the major milestones for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been, in September 2013, the completion by ESA of NIRSpec, the first multi-object spectrograph to be operated in space. ... Cambridge, and in particular the Cavendish Astrophysics Group and the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, is heavily involved in NIRSpec by hosting one of the Instrument Science Team members (R. Maiolino). ...

... Это первое изображение звезды, отличной от Солнца, полученное космическим телескопом. Звезда, называемая Aльфой Ориона (Бетельгейзе), отмечена крестиком на правом изображении зимнего созвездия Ориона (Охотника). На изображении показана огромная ультрафиолетовая атмосфера звезды с таинственным ярким пятном размером в десять раз большим диаметра Земли и имеющем температуру по-крайней мере на 2000 К больше температуры остальной поверхности звезды. ...

... 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. ...

... The damage to NIFS has freed up the RSAA instrumentation team to concentrate on the timely delivery of the Gemini South Adaptic Optics Imager (GSAOI). ... GSAOI is the second instrument that ANU is building for Gemini. ... GSAOI Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/gsaoi/ NIFS Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/nifs/ RSAA Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/ Australian Gemini Project Office Website: http://www.ausgo.unsw.edu.au/ Gemini Public Information Website: http://www.gemini.anu.edu.au/public/ . ...

... HOME . ... Richard J. Edgar, Project Scientist . DXS, the Diffuse X-ray Spectrometer instruments were flown on the STS-54 mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavour in January of 1993. ... A Summary of the First Results from the Diffuse X-ray Spectrometer Experiment . ... In January of 1993 the Diffuse X-ray Spectrometer (DXS) instruments flew on the STS-54 mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. ... The DXS x-ray spectrum from the diffuse background in the constellations of Puppis and Auriga. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Октябрь 1998 . ... 5, 1998 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Newsroom Phone: 301-286-8955 NOTE TO EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: 98-158 HISTORIC JOHN GLENN FLIGHT TO FEATURE MARYLAND AND GODDARD SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS When Mercury astronaut and Ohio Senator John Glenn returns to space October 29, a fascinating array of science experiments from the Goddard Space Flight Center and Maryland students will fly with him. ...

Next: CCD Operation Up: Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) Previous: Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) . ... However it is only now that a number of important X-ray astronomical applications of CCDs have reached critical development stages, so that this is an appropriate time to review the application of space-borne CCD instruments to cosmic X-ray astronomy, and highlight the particular concerns which are being addressed for X-ray instruments, as distinct from optical applications. ...