Those Venera were amazing spacecraft indeed.
Some questions:
What is the size of the lander?
Would it been able to float?
Why did these land close together?

I’m loosing track of observation missions so I turned to UMSF again
The last few years many space agencies planned space-based telescopes such as CNES with COROT (2006), NASA with WISE (2009) and James Webb Telescope (2013), ESA with Herschel-FIRST (2008) and DARWIN-formation (2020). Can anyone point out a table which specifies what part of the electromagnetic spectrum each of these are using? And which are used for finding extra-solar planets?
Danke!

Danke

Congratuliere Alan

Doug, how did You get in contact with the Sky at Night presenter?

That's 3 AU per year. Will these overtake the Pioneers?

Will NH only make Black-and-White images at Pluto as well?

Newspapers even get the basics wrong, adding the wrong spacecraft photo to an article etc...

Soviet-Russian like petals anyway

BBQ, was there a barbecue? Will there be one this year?

Any update?
By The Way does LPL have a shop whee to buy planetary explo posters?

I'm searching an educational poster showing the ringsystem around Saturn. Where to buy such poster?
Danke!

Good photo, do You have the photo available without the calendar text please?
Danke

With MGS gone, how many orbiters are still around Mars (4 I guess) ?

Where can we buy large poster-size maps of planet Mars?
I searching both real color and elevation color poster maps,
Danke!

Sounds good, what will be the title?
Hardbound edition I hope?
When available for pre-order via Amazon?

A ticket for US $ 200,000, well the video has some 'Thunderbirds' touches:
http://www.space.com/php/video/player.php?...rgin_galactic01

Probably not the correct forum area but I wanted to start a tracking station topic

Some Tracking stations related weblinks:

http://www.bfec.us/bfectxt.htm

http://www.insa.org/gallery/oc/historicas/Fresnedillas/

http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/other_stations/

Jodrell bank must be an amazing sight I guess

I guess UMSF forum is best seen with FireFox, but nowadays I'm using Internet Explorer as FireFox 1.5.7 (probably an automatic update) can't browse any webpages...
A FireFox bug? We'll have to wait for version 1.2

Probably ... The yearly NASA budget takes of this ( sum beispiel: MER increased yearly ) ?

The new capsule certainly looks huge !

O.K. here we go, separate topic for a possible 2007 UMSF 'Real World' meeting...

Interesting does UMSF really plan a REAL meeting for the 2007 summer, maybe we have to start a separate topic on this
Deutschland would be O.K.

Any updates on this ?
Danke schön !