21. Ocean Surface Topography From Space-Missions Ocean Surface Topography from space. First, despite the lag time, the tracking dataare the only actual data that mission operations people have on the http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/who-data.html

@import url( "../main.css" ); + View the NASA Portal OVERVIEW SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ... Who's Who Navigation: Uses of Tracking Data Tracking data always lags behind the spacecraft. For example, it takes from one to three days for the Project Operations Control Center at JPL to get tracking data from the LRA system. By then, the spacecraft has moved on considerably! So what is the use of all this tracking data? < Previous Next >> Who's Who Overview ... Gallery Web Curator: Margaret Srinivasan Web Developer: Kristy Kawasaki Last Updated:

22. ScienceDaily -- Browse Topics: Science/Technology/Space/Missions/Unmanned provides critical communications and tracking information to interplanetary spaceprobes. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory mission information and data http://www.sciencedaily.com/directory/Science/Technology/Space/Missions/Unmanned

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23. @TITLE-1 = SPACE SURVEILLANCE at Pirinclik, Turkey, has the same general mission as COBRA system has two detectionradars and a tracking radar. is the only 24hour a day deep space sensor in http://www-tradoc.army.mil/dcscd/spaceweb/chap07f.htm

Section VI: SPACE SURVEILLANCE 7-54 - Space Surveillance Overview Introduction a. Space surveillance provides information on what is orbiting Earth. This information includes each object's orbital parameters, size and shape, and other data useful for determining its purpose. Active and inactive satellites, along with space debris such as boosters, shrouds, and other objects are tracked. The smallest object that can be tracked is about 4 inches (10 cm) in diameter. Space surveillance provides essential information to the operators of space systems, helps to determine the capabilities of potential adversaries, predicts the orbits of objects in space to include warning of potential collisions, provides warning of an attack on a U.S. space system, and predicts space object reentry impact points. In addition, messages are sent to tactical commanders to warn them when they can be observed by a potential adversary's space systems. Space Surveillance Network b. The U.S. Space Surveillance Network (SSN) is a collection of radar and optical sensors used to detect, track and identify objects in space. Although referred to as a network, the Space Surveillance Network was not originally planned

24. Space Today Online - Global Space And Astronomy Links links to all centers TDRSS Information Center tracking and Data of Small SatelliteEngineering (IJSSE) JAWSAT LunarSat space mission Microsatellite will hook http://www.spacetoday.org/Weblinks/satellites.html

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25. Space Tracking Technology Focuses On Deep Space of nearearth objects (NEOs) by 300%. Basic research in detectionand tracking of NEOs benefits the Air Force space mission by http://www.afrlhorizons.com/Briefs/0006/OSR9901.html

Space Tracking Technology Focuses on Deep Space A new, state-of-the-art space tracking technology will give the Air Force better situational awareness of the space environment by providing better detection and tracking of objects in deep space. AFRL's Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Mathematics and Space Sciences Directorate, Arlington VA This new technology, developed by an Air Force Office of Scientific Research supported research team, led by Dr. Grant Stokes at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, improves the worldwide capability for detection of near-earth objects (NEOs) by 300%. Basic research in detection and tracking of NEOs benefits the Air Force space mission by: providing a test-bed to develop enhanced technology for the detection of smaller, fainter, and more slowly moving space objects; and contributing to multi-agency initiatives intended to identify, catalog, and predict the orbits of space objects that may pose a threat to the earth, or other high-value space assets, such as the International Space Station. The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project uses a 1m aperture telescope located near Socorro, NM, to detect and track potential NEO candidates. The GTS-2 telescope (shown in Figure 1) is a 1m folded prime focus Cassegrain design identical to that of the Ground-based Electro-Optic Deep Space Surveillance telescope used by the Air Force for space surveillance. This telescope uses highly sensitive electronic devices called charge-coupled devices (CCDs) to photograph the sky, while computer algorithms process the images and quickly detect any changes from one observation to the next. Asteroid observations are forwarded to astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Minor Planet Center in Massachusetts, who then calculate the object's orbit and provide discovery acknowledgments. The LINEAR system incorporates innovative technologies including:

26. Space Communications With Mars This capability gives the mission team several different ways to tracking the spacecraftcruise. During cruise, the Deep space Network antennas must pick up http://www.astrosurf.com/lombry/qsl-mars-communication2.htm

Space Communications with Mars The Deep Space Network (II) The NASA Deep Space Network, aka DSN, is an international telecommunication network initiated in 1987. The first antenna, Deep Space Station 13 (DSS 13), was constructed between 1988 and 1989. It saw its "first light" in early 1990. The DSN consists of large antennas equipped with cryogenically cooled low-noise amplifiers (approx. 20 K noise temperature) that ensure the communications between JPL and other scientists laboratories working on Earth and Mars Exploration spacecrafts placed on orbit or that landed on its surface. This network is of course used to contact most other spacecrafts from Ulysses to Voyagers. To permit constant control of spacecrafts while the Earth rotates on its own axis, the DSN use three deep-space communications facilities placed approximately 120° apart around the world : the first antenna is located at Goldstone, in California's Mojave Desert; the second one near Madrid, Spain; and the last one near Canberra, Australia. Today about ten dishes are erected in the California's Mojave Desert. The Goldstone 70m antenna, the largest steerable antenna ever built for space communications.

27. Air Force Maui Optical & Supercomputing Site Currently, through its primary mission for Air Force Command, the Maui space SurveillanceSystem combines largeaperture tracking optics with visible and http://www.maui.afmc.af.mil/about.html

Homepage About AMOS Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) operating location on Maui has a two-fold mission. First, it conducts the research and development mission on the Maui Space Surveillance System (MSSS) at the Maui Space Surveillance Complex (MSSC). Second, it oversees operation of the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC). AFRL's research and development mission on Maui was formally called AMOS; the use of the term AMOS has been widespread throughout the technical community for over thirty years and is still used today at many technical conferences. Maui Space Surveillance System (MSSS) The accessibility and capability of the Maui Space Surveillance System provides an unequaled opportunity to the scientific community by combining state-of-the-art satellite tracking with a facility supporting research and development. The Maui Space Surveillance System, also known as AMOS by the scientific community, is routinely involved in numerous observing programs and has the capability of projecting lasers into the atmosphere, which is unusual at astronomical sites. Ideal Viewing Environment Virtually year-round viewing conditions are possible due to the relatively stable climate. Dry, clean air and minimal scattered light from surface sources enable visibility exceeding 150 km. Based on double star observations, seeing is typically on the order of one arc second.

28. VARA Shuttle/Satellite Tracking Software & Keplerian Elements of HF frequencies to monitor Shuttle mission audio and space Online by IK1SLD lotsof Mir information, Mir Shuttle QSL addresses, Mir SSTV, tracking info, etc http://www.qsl.net/w2vtm/sat_track.html

Victor Amateur Radio Association (VARA) ISS/Shuttle/Satellite Tracking Software and Links to Keplerian Elements Pages See AMSAT's Review of various tracking software or AMSAT's Downloadable Software site Tracking Software PC Shareware PC Purchased Macintosh UNIX/LINUX ... Handhelds Web-based Web-based Tracking Pass Predictions Keplerian Elements Keplerian Elements Moon/EME Phase 3D (AO-40) Telemetry Demod Mission Related Launch Info NASA TV Shuttle Audio Retransmission References Space Reference Page Links to Related Sites E-mail List Subscriptions Add Comments to our Guest Book ... Click here to see what the Space Station looks like on a visible pass (courtesy NASA) The animation shows a simulated pass of International Space Station through the constellation Orion. This is what a bright satellite pass is like. Visible satellite passes occur after sunset and before dawn. From http://science.nasa.gov Flyover by Tom Sylvester (requires payment for full-featured version) PREDICT - Satellite orbital prediction for DOS; optimized for speed; by

29. Past Space Shuttle Missions: Space Shuttle Flights, Space Shuttle Manifest And L 53, 54, Endeavour, 0113-93, tracking Data Relay Satellite TDRS-F, 5, 59, 61, Endeavour,12-02-93, Hubble space Telescope, Repair 1st Servicing mission-01, 7, http://www.thespaceplace.com/shuttle/past.html

Home Hale-Bopp Space Memorabilia Mercury ... Ordering Info Past Space Shuttle Flights Here is a comprehensive list of every space shuttle launch since 1981 to the present. FLT STS VEHICLE LAUNCH Major payload(s) or objective(s) Crew Commander Columbia 1st Developmental Flight Young Columbia 2nd Developmental Flight. Test robot arm (RMS) Engle Top Next Columbia 3rd Developmental Flight Lousma Columbia 4th Developmental Flight Mattingly Columbia Sat. Business Systems-C Brand Top Next Challenger Weitz Challenger German Shuttle Pallet Sat. -01 Crippen Challenger 1 communications satellite Truly Columbia First Spacelab Mission (SL-1) Young Top Next 41-B Challenger Shuttle Pallet Sat. -01A. First test of MMU jetpack Brand 41-C Challenger Long Duration Exposure Facility-01 Crippen 41-D Discovery 3 communications satellites Hartsfield 41-G Challenger Environmental satellite ERBS Crippen 51-A Discovery 2 comsats, 2 satellite retrievals/recoveries Hauck Top Next 51-C Discovery First military (DOD) mission Mattingly 51-D Discovery Canadian Telecom. Sat.-I. EVA to repair Syncom IV sat. Bobko 51-B Challenger Spacelab-03 Overmyer 51-G Discovery 3 communications satellites Brandenstein 51-F Challenger Spacelab-02 Fullerton 51-I Discovery Australian Communications Sat.-01

30. ScienceMaster - Astronomy And Space Science - NASA Mission Links University of Arizona spacewatch program; Near Earth Asteroid tracking, a team ledby JPL; Lowell Observatory NearEarth Object Search. Non-space Science missions. http://www.sciencemaster.com/space/item/mission_links.php

Homework Helper Jumpstart Science Topics Learning Galleries Today is LINKS TO THE BEST NASA MISSION PAGES Space Missions Under study AIM Constellation-X Dawn EUSO ... WISE preliminary concepts In development AMS Astro-E2 CINDI Deep Impact ... TWINS Operating ACE Cassini Chandra CHIPS ... Space Science Data Past missions Ended after 1989: ASCA Astro-1 Astro-2 BBXRT ... SNOE Spartan Starshine TERRIERS TSS-1 TSS-1R ... Yohkoh Older missions: JPL missions NSSDC database You may also be interested in an excellent reference to the various deep space spacecraft that have been launched by the U.S., Soviet Union/Russia, and other countries since the beginning of the space age. Multi-Mission Programs The following programs include multiple missions, many of which are linked above. Discovery Program Explorer Program International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Living With a Star ... Sounding Rockets Ground-Based Astronomy Most of our research activities are carried out using spacecraft (earth-orbiting or interplanetary) or suborbital vehicles (sounding rockets, balloons, and high-altitude aircraft). The National Science Foundation is the government agency that is responsible for most U.S. ground-based astronomical research. However, we do support a few ground-based activities, including:

31. NESS: A Dual-Use Microsatellite For Asteroid Detection/Tracking, And Satellite T by the Canadian space Agency (CSA) and Defence R and D Canada (DRDC). NESS usesa single satellite to perform a dual mission searching for and tracking Earth http://www.stormingmedia.us/90/9070/A907004.html

PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY Astronomy NESS: A Dual-Use Microsatellite for Asteroid Detection/Tracking, and Satellite Tracking R and D Authors: Carroll, Kieran A.; Hildebrand, Alan R.; CALGARY UNIV (ALBERTA) DEPT OF GEOLOGY Abstract: The Near Earth Space Surveillance (NESS) mission is being developed by Dynacon and a team of asteroid scientists, supported by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Defence R and D Canada (DRDC). NESS uses a single satellite to perform a dual mission: searching for and tracking Earth-approaching asteroids, and tracking satellites in Earth orbit. There are aspects of both of these activities that are best accomplished using an orbiting observatory. The concept presented here is to implement NESS using a small imaging telescope mounted on a low-cost microsatellite-class platform, based on the design developed for the MOST stellar photometry microsatellite mission. Limitations: APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Description: Conference proceedings Pages: Report Date: 03 APR 2001 Report number: Price: (25% savings) Shipping terms CANADA SATELLITE TRACKING SYSTEMS EARTH ORBITS ... Advanced Search

32. STS-98 Shuttle Press Kit way communications with the ISS and the mission Control Center via the tracking andData centerpiece of research on the International space Station, the http://www.shuttlepresskit.com/STS-98/

Shuttle Press Kit Mission Overview Flight Plan Experiments DTO/DSO/RME ... Download the STS-98 Acronym List in PDF ( 84.9 KB) Download the STS-98 Press Kit in PDF format for printing ( 2.8 MB) Requires Adobe Reader Atlantis OV104 Launch: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 6:13 PM (eastern time) Mission Objectives Overview The primary objective of STS-98, International Space Station Assembly Mission 5A, is to deliver and install the U.S. Destiny Laboratory onto the ISS. The centerpiece of research on this world-class scientific orbiting outpost, this workshop in space will support experiments and studies in cancer, diabetes and materials, just to name a few. The aluminum U.S. laboratory module is 28 feet long and 14 feet wide. It is comprised of three cylindrical sections and two endcones that contain the hatch openings through which astronauts will enter and exit the module. Destiny will be mated to the forward port of Unity. In Destiny are five systems racks that will provide life-sustaining functions on board including electrical power, cooling water, air revitalization, and temperature and humidity control. Each rack weighs about 1,200 pounds. Six additional racks will be flown to Destiny on STS-102. Four standoffs provide raceways for module utilities—interfaces for ducting, piping, and wiring to be run to/from the individual racks and throughout the Lab. Twelve racks that will provide platforms for a variety of scientific experiments will follow on subsequent missions. In total, Destiny will hold 23 racks – six each on the port and starboard sides and overhead, and five on the deck.

33. About Universal Space Network, Inc. Clients And Partners the Consolidated space Operations Contract (CSOC) contracted USN to provide primaryspacecraft tracking and communications services for the Triana mission. http://www.uspacenetwork.com/clients_partners.htm

Home About Services Site Locations ... Galaxy Evolution Explorer U SN provides all orbital telemetry, tracking, and control services and data recovery for the California Institute of Technology's upcoming Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) mission to study how galaxies formed 10 billion light years ago. This science mission will be able to look back in time by studying what is known as the "redshift range of 0<z<2," that period in time when most of the stars, elements, and galaxies of our universe were formed. The GALEX mission is a Small Explorer mission, which launched April 28, 2003 and will last approximately three years. Small Explorers are managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Christopher Martin of the Space Astrophysics Laboratory at CalTech is the principal investigator for the GALEX mission. THhe GALEX spacecraft was built by Orbital Sciences Corporation Wideband Gapfiller - BOEING The Wideband Gapfiller satellites (WGS) provide near-term continuation and augmentation of the services currently provided by the Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) and the Global Broadcast Service (GBS) Ka services currently provided by GBS payloads on UFO satellites. The new Wideband Gapfiller satellites complement the DSCS III Service Life Enhancement Program (SLEP) and GBS payloads, and offset the eventual decline in DSCS III capability. Together these assets provide wideband services during the transition period between today's systems and the advent of the Objective X/Ka wideband system or Advanced Wideband System (AWS) in 2008.

34. Project Tracking & Archive 05/06/2002, space, mission report, mission Report, Meeting Navigate Consortium,Milano, Michalis Ketselidis, meeting with navigate consortium. http://pta.jrc.cec.eu.int/show.gx?Object.object_id=SEC-----00000000000000C9&outp

35. CNN.com - NASA Starts Countdown To Mars Mission - Feb. 27, 2003 director of the National Aeronautics and space Administration s (NASA in Australiato visit one of three tracking stations involved in the mission. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/02/26/mars.countdown.reut/

The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-Mail Services CNNtoGO SEARCH Web CNN.com NASA starts countdown to Mars mission Drawing of one of the twin Mars rovers Story Tools CANBERRA, Australia (Reuters) Astronomers have started a countdown to the launch of two robotic buggies on a mission to find out if there is, or ever was, life on Mars. Charles Elachi, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said final preparations were underway with one "exploration rover" arriving at Cape Canaveral this week and the second due in three weeks. He said the rovers, which are the size of an office desk, were set to be launched on May 30 and June 25, piggy-backing on two rockets then parachuting down to Mars in January in an air-bag cushioned landing. Elachi said there was strong interest in the latest launches after recent indications there could be water ice on the red planet. Interest was also keen after the loss in 1999 of two robotic Mars missions a lander and an orbiting spacecraft at a cost of $290 million. Missions to Mars can only occur every two years when the planets are in the favorable alignment. Liquid water is seen as key for Earth-type life on a planet and underground water ice could help show how Mars developed.

36. Space Missions Of General Interest and launch vehicles, launching and tracking the craft mission categories includeExploring our Solar System the Universe, and Fundamental Physics in space. http://tellus.ssec.wisc.edu/outreach/sp_miss/space.htm

The NASA Homepage N ational Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Earth Science Enterprise Missions The Mission of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise is to develop a scientific understanding of the Earth System and it's response to natural or human-induced changes to enable improved prediction capability for climate, weather, and natural hazards. The ESE has an end-to-end strategy to assure that all the information, understanding, and capabilities derived from it's research program achieve maximum usefulness to the scientific and decision-making communities. Increasing our knowledge of the Earth system is the goal of ESE's research program, which is complemented by an applications and a technology program. SSEC's GIFTS Website NASA Office of Space Flight The goal of the Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS) Enterprise is to open the space frontier by exploring, using and enabling the development of space. Our programs provide safe, assured transportation to and from space for people and payloads, and develop and operate habitable space facilities in order to enhance scientific knowledge, support technology development, and enable commercial activity. NASA's Origins Program It's hard to communicate the full sense of wonder that floods through us at such a moment, but we all understand. At least once, the dimly glittering night sky has stopped us in our tracks, bringing quiet contemplation of how the Universe came to be and what our relationship is to everything within it. NASA's Origins Program seeks to answer two enduring human questions that we once considered around ancient campfires, yet still keep alive in today's classrooms: Where do we come from? Are we alone?

37. Tracking Stations the National Aeronautics and space Administration (NASA The tracking station participatedin various projects including the first successful mission to another http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~woomera/tracking.htm

TRACKING STATIONS ISLAND LAGOON TRACKING STATION The first deep-space station to be established outside the United States by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was at Woomera, Australia. It was designated as DSS 41. In February 1959, a survey team selected a location in a natural depression near the Island Lagoon dry lake bed, about 56 kilometres south of the rangehead of the Woomera Rocket Range. In August 1960, negotiations were completed for a US-Australian agreement to operate NASA stations in Australia. A Radio Construction Company crew under the supervision of a JPL engineer Floyd W. Stoller erected a 26-metre, polar-mounted antenna similar to the one at the Goldstone Pioneer station in California. From August to November 1960, JPL engineer Richard K. Mallis supervised a JPL-Collins Radio Company team that installed the electronics on the antenna. The station was operated by the Australian Department of Supply (DOS), whose Weapons Research Establishment (WRE) managed the Woomera range. The DOS/WRE appointed William Mettyear as the first station director. The facility employed more than 100 professional, technical and administrative staff who lived at Woomera Village . The Department of Supply gave the contract for operational and maintenance services to Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd. The tracking station participated in various projects involving spacecraft which ventured more than 16,000 kilometres from Earth, including the first successful mission to another planet - the flyby of Venus by

38. Florida Guardsman Online - Air Guard Receives New Space-launch Tracking System said. “There is absolutely no other National Guard that has thetype of mission we do, or even does spacelaunch tracking. So http://www.floridaguard.net/news/read.asp?did=3084

39. NASA's Advanced Automation For Space Missions: Chapter 5, Appendix B According to the baseline mission for a growing Laser tracking is one possibility,but probably too Vision, FaultTolerant Systems, Large space Structures and http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/aasm/AASM5B.html

Previous Top Appendix 5B: LMF Positional Transponder System According to the baseline mission for a growing, self-replicating Lunar Manufacturing Facility (LMF) presented in section 5.3.4, a 100-ton seed is dropped to the lunar surface and thereupon unpacks itself, sets up the initial factory complex, and then proceeds to produce more of itself (or any other desired output). Clearly, the level of automation and machine intelligence required lies beyond current state-of-the-art, though not beyond the projected state-of-the-art two or three decades hence. Because of the already challenging design problem, it is highly desirable to keep all seed systems as simple as possible in both structure and function. This should help reduce the risk of partial or total system failure and make closure less difficult to achieve at all levels. One of the more complicated pieces of hardware from the Al standpoint is the "camera eyes" and pattern recognition routines (visual sensing) that may be needed. Although it is possible that standardized robot camera eyes may be developed, it is more likely that each particular application will demand its own unique set of requirements, thus greatly reducing or eliminating any gains in simplicity of camera design. The pragmatic industrial approach (Kincaid et al., 1980) and design philosophy in these cases, especially in the area of computer vision, is to: (1) simplify, (2) use unconventional solutions, and (3) "cheat (i.e., solve another problem). It may be that the best way to handle the problem of computer vision is to find a way to largely avoid it altogether.

40. China These provided an indigenous weathertracking capability. signed the various UN treatieson space and began for development of a Small Multi-mission Satellite http://www.astronautix.com/articles/china.htm

Encyclopedia Astronautica astronautix.com topic index space wire Shenzhou Shenzhou, name of first Chinese manned spacecraft, as named by President Zemin. 273 x 227 pixels - 2,251 bytes Recovery of FSW Recovery of FSW unmanned reconnaissance satellite capsule. 491 x 177 pixels - 20,008 bytes DFH-1 Credit: via Sven Grahn 272 x 226 pixels - 11,866 bytes DFH-3 Credit: via Chen Lan 367 x 181 pixels - 11,788 bytes Chinese Shuttle Chinese shuttle craft - model at the Chinese Pavilion, Hannover Expo 2000.The model indicates a spaceplane similar to the cancelled European Hermes. 498 x 274 pixels - 13,752 bytes Chinese Space Statio Chinese space station - model at the Chinese Pavilion, Hannover Expo 2000.The model also shows docked supply and propulsion (solid?) modules. 567 x 357 pixels - 21,743 bytes Chinese on Moon Chinese astronauts with lunar rover plant the flag of the People's Republic of China's flag on the lunar surface - model at the Chinese Pavilion, Hannover Expo 2000. 532 x 362 pixels - 31,865 bytes ..space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space. McAuliffe China Chinese Programme Chinese Space Programme as of 2003. Solid doghouses show completed tasks, unfilled milestones show plans current at that time. After a big start in 2000, the remainder of the ten-year plan seemed behind schedule.

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