Destiny, NASA Funds Dark Energy Space Telescope Development |
Destiny, NASA Funds Dark Energy Space Telescope Development |
Aug 4 2006, 05:22 PM
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NASA has selected a team led by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center develop a concept for a space mission to characterize the mysterious dark energy that permeates the universe and is causing its expansion to accelerate.
Known as Destiny, the Dark Energy Space Telescope, the spacecraft would detect and observe more than 3,000 supernovae over its two-year primary mission. Destiny ultimately is selected to achieve the JDEM scientific goals, the spacecraft and its 1.65-meter telescope would be launched by a Delta IV or Atlas V expendable rocket into a stable orbit at the second Earth-Sun Lagrangian point as soon as 2013. http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_Fun...opment_999.html -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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