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Ball Aerospace To Ship WISE Spacecraft
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 12, 2009 Ball Aerospace and Technologies has successfully completed a comprehensive pre-shipment review for NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE satellite. The pre-shipment review was completed on August 4 and followed assembly and performance testing. Ball Aerospace engineers have packed the satellite into a shipping container for delivery in mid-August to California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. WISE is scheduled to launch in December 2009 aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket into an Earth orbit. Ball Aerospace built the WISE spacecraft, integrated the WISE infrared cryogenic science instrument and performed testing requirements. During the seven-month mission, WISE will survey the entire sky at infrared wavelengths to collect data and catalogue hundreds of millions of objects. The survey will be the most detailed to date in WISE's infrared wavelengths. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages WISE for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Ned Wright of UCLA is the WISE Principal Investigator. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Astronomy Question Of The Week: Whither Goest Thou, Milky WayBonn, Germany (SPX) Jul 28, 2009 As the young god Heracles forcefully suckled the breast of the Greek goddess Hera, she pushed him away and a spurt of her breast milk spilled across the sky. The name of our home galaxy, which does in fact appear in the night sky as a milky band, originates from this Greek legend. The term 'galaxy' stems from the ancient Greek word for milk, 'gala'. After the well-known Andromeda Nebula ... read more |
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