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WISE has launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Image credit: United Launch Alliance NASA 's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer , or WISE , lifted off over the Pacific Ocean this morning on its way to map the entire sky in infrared light. A Delta II rocket carrying the spacecraft launched at 9:09 a.m. EST from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The rocket deposited WISE into a polar orbit 326 miles above Earth. " WISE ...
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11 hours ago ago from S@turns World - my blog
NASA's WISE heads skywards Embarks on six-month infrared mission NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, aka WISE, is up and running following a successful launch at 14:09 GMT today from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The 661kg spacecraft was lifted aloft by a Delta II rocket, following a launch knock-back last week caused by an "anomaly in the motion of a booster steering engine". Shortly after separation from ...
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Source: NASA NASA's WISE Eye on the Universe Begins All-Sky Survey Mission (14 Dec 2009) WISE has launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Image credit: United Launch Alliance VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, lifted off over the Pacific Ocean this morning on its way to map the entire sky in infrared light. A Delta II rocket carrying the spacecraft launched at ...
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NASA Launches Web Site for Teenagers That Want More Class "NASA has launched a new Web site created specifically for teenagers that provides teens access to current NASA spacecraft data for use in school science projects, allows them to conduct real experiments with NASA scientists, and helps them locate space-related summer internships." Keith's note: Nice website. One big problem: no mention of human spaceflight or aeronautics. If ...
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