GLAST - Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope |
GLAST - Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope |
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Feb 16 2008, 07:49 PM
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The year 2008 proves to become extremely exciting as the European Laboratory for particle physics (CERN = Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) will start-up the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest sub-atomic particle accelerator in an underground circular tunnel near Geneva Switzerland, in order to study nature’s fundamental elements and their interactions at the smallest scale. Meanwhile, NASA’s GLAST space telescope will study the same processes as the LHC does but in their natural cosmic settings.
Thought this mission should get its own topic http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/sp...raft/index.html |
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Jun 11 2008, 05:53 PM
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Looked a bit unusual to me - blackening on the GEM's - and what looked like venting from the 1st stage shortly after launch.
Nice to hear it's up and away though Doug |
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Jun 12 2008, 03:20 PM
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Looked a bit unusual to me - blackening on the GEM's - and what looked like venting from the 1st stage shortly after launch. Doug I noticed that, too, and a colleague showed me it blackened the rocket all the way up to the fairing. I haven't watched a ton of Delta launches, but I don't recall ever seeing such an effect. EDIT: Sorry, misread your post. You weren't saying venting caused the blackening. Any thoughts on what might have? |
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