Physicists eagerly await launch of NASA space telescope they helped build
Friday, May 30, 2008 - 16:07
in Astronomy & Space
When NASA launches its newest space observatory, physicists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will be watching as the product of nearly 16 years of hard work blasts into orbit. The UCSC team led an international effort to design a massive detector system for the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), scheduled for launch from Cape Canaveral on 5 June...
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