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... launched from Cape Canaveral. The main cargo on board was the Astro 2 Spacelab that carried 3 UV telescopes. Astro-2 was the second dedicated Spacelab mission to conduct astronomical observations in ... video recorders for data storage and batteries to provide experiment power. EVA Payload Ultraviolet Astronomy (ASTRO) 2; Middeck Active Control Experiment (MACE); Protein Crystal Growth - Thermal Enclosure System (PCG-TES) 03 ...

... scientific data analysis, in addition to his flight crew responsibilities for the Astro program. At the completion of the Astro program Dr. Parise assumed an advanced planning and communications engineering support role ... and STS-67 in 1995. Spaceflight Experience NASA EXPERIENCE: STS-35 /Astro-1 Columbia (December 2-10, 1990). The Astro observatory is a unique complement of three telescopes designed to simultaneously record ...

... development, optical and mechanical design, construction, and integration of the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope and the Astro Observatory. He has conducted research and directed graduate students at the Johns Hopkins University for ... of the crew of Space Shuttle Columbia for the STS-35 /Astro-1 and Space Shuttle Endeavour for the STS-67 /Astro-2 missions. Organizations American Astronomical Society, American Geophysical Union, International ...

... Nordsieck, associate professor at Washburn Observatory, University of Wisconsin, would serve as the backup. The Astro-1 mission would study Halley's Comet and other celestial objects through three ultraviolet astronomical ... , NASA associate administrator for space science and applications, said, “The opportunities for science synergism between Astro-1 and the armada of Halley encounter spacecraft are significant. The scientific study of Halley ...

... , planetary systems, and galaxies. Part of a joint mission of JAXA , ESA , and Korean researchers, ASTRO-F was built to survey the cosmos at higher resolutions and with higher sensitivity than ... Satellite, which had launched in 1983. '' JAXA , “Infrared Imaging Satellite “AKARI” (ASTRO-F),” http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/astro_f/index_e.html (accessed 14 September 2010); Tariq Malik, “Japan Launches ...

... meters (394 feet) away from NextSat to avoid inadvertently colliding with the satellite. However, thereafter, ASTRO had drifted approximately 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) away from NextSat , requiring ground observers’ intervention to help the two craft remate successfully. DARPA planned to conduct a technical review of ASTRO ’s sensor- and navigation-performance lessons and to conduct an investigation into the cause of ...

... satellite servicing and robotics. The two craft comprising Orbital Express— ASTRO and NextSat —had launched together in March 2007, to demonstrate ASTRO ’s ability to approach NextSat with limited interaction from the ... hardware to NextSat . The decommissioning of the satellites followed the completion of one last maneuver. ASTRO had found NextSat and homed in on the craft from long range, assisted by the ...

... to observe Halley’s Comet in 1986 using a Space Shuttle -based astronomy observatory called Astro. The scientists were Dr. Michael A Hearn, University of Maryland, College Park, Md.; Drs. John ... of the three ultraviolet telescope teams, comprised the Astro Halley Science Team that would plan the overall program for observing the comet. Astro consisted of three specially designed ultraviolet telescopes and two ... SPACE CENTER KSC during 1985 for launch in early March 1986. The first seven-day Astro mission was scheduled at a time when several comet probes would intercept Halley, and it ...

... . Instead, NASA appeared to be concentrating on such priorities as the Space Station program. The Astro program is Shuttle-dependent, with the assumption that the Shuttle would provide cheap and reliable space transportation. The Astro program needs to be reexamined. (CSM, Jan 9/91) 1991 January 1991 January Jan 1 ...

... from the Kagoshima Space Center on the Japanese island of Kyushu. However, soon after launch, Astro-E was lost when the rocket suffered a "control system breakdown," propelling the satellite into ... the launch determined that the satellite had most likely burned up in Earth's atmosphere. Astro-E, the product of a joint venture between the United States and Japan, carried new ... the heat of single protons. The specialists overseeing the launch and mission had hoped that Astro-E would orbit and gather data for five years. The satellite had cost more than ...

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