Orbiting gamma-ray observatory begins search for odd space objects
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 08:42
in Astronomy & Space
The scientists have stopped holding their breath. Three weeks after the launch of the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), researchers from Stanford University, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre and elsewhere have shaken awake the scientific instruments aboard their $690 million satellite, 350 miles above Earth, for the first time...
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