Sentence examples for observatory module from inspiring English sources

Finally, a public contest to name a new observatory module to be connected this year to the international space station has gone awry after Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert asked followers to add his name to the write-in ballots.

The Skylab space station, launched by NASA in 1973, included a solar observatory module called the Apollo Telescope Mount that was operated by astronauts resident on the station.

The video, made from time-lapse photographs taken from the ISS's Cupola observatory module, takes us around the world from Africa to the Mediterranean Sea, North America to South America and Europe to the Middle East, among more than a dozen other journeys.

From the Cupola observatory module's 31-inch-windows on the International Space Station, Virtz searches for the 28 cities with MLB stadiums, takes a photograph, posts it on Instagram with the hashtag #ISSPlayBall, and asks his followers to guess the city in question.

MAXI, Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image, is an X-ray observatory on the Japanese Experimental Module (JEM) Exposed Facility (EF) on the International Space Station (ISS).

JEM-EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory on Japanese Experiment Module) is an advanced observatory that will be on-board the International Space Station (ISS) and use the Earth׳s atmosphere as a huge calorimeter detector.

An instrument compliment resides in the focal plane module (FPM) of each observatory 10 m from the optics module and consists of three hard X-ray telescope (HXT) detectors, a reflection grating spectrometer (RGS) focal plane CCD camera (RFC) and an X-ray microcalorimeter spectrometer (XMS).

Rates of detection were simulated for two different systems: the SPOSH (Smart Panoramic Optical Sensor Head) camera optimized for the observation of transient luminous events, and the JEM-EUSO (Japanese Experiment Module-Extreme Universe Space Observatory) experiment on the ISS International Space Stationn).

The observatory consists of 5,160 digital optical modules suspended from 86 strings, which detect the tiny flashes of blue light emitted when neutrinos interact with molecules in the ice, known as Cherenkov radiation.

He became Program Manager for the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, Subcontract Manager for the Apollo Spacecraft's Lunar Module, and Grumman's Director of Subcontract Management for over a decade.

JEM-EUSO, the Extreme Universe Space Observatory EUSOon-boardard the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) at the International Space Station, is a space-based observatory for Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) which uses the atmosphere as a huge calorimeter.