NASA's gamma-ray telescope lifts off
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Glast und a NASA acronym standing for Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope und began its five- to 10-year mission with a midday blastoff aboard a Delta rocket. (article 1)
Everything went well and, in just over an hour, the telescope was orbiting 345 miles above Earth precisely as planned, generating applause in Launch Control. (article 1)
The $690 million telescope, supported by six countries, will pick up where NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory left off before its deliberate destruction in 2000, but in a bigger and better way. (article 1)
What's more, Glast and its particle detectors are much more sensitive and precise, and should provide an unprecedented view into the high-energy universe. (article 1)
Physicists want to know more about the huge jets of particles and radiation shooting out of black holes at nearly light speed, and the gamma ray bursts, or explosions, that take place in the universe every day. (article 1)
Ritz expects 100,000 charged particles to stream through the telescope for every gamma ray, with about two gamma rays a second. (article 1)
With the National Academy of Sciences pushing gamma ray observations as a high priority for NASA, work on the nearly 5-ton telescope began in 2000, after eight years of planning. (article 1)
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gamma, Glast, Telescope, NASA, Ray |
Source articles
- Telescope launched to scout out gamma rays (Washington Post, 06/11/2008, 506 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > SCITECH (FOX News, 06/11/2008, 9 words)
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