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WISE Sky-Surveying Spacecraft Ready For Launch Dec. 11
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2009 The launch of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, aboard a Delta II rocket is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 11, between 6:09 a.m. and 6:23 a.m. PST (9:09 a.m. and 9:23 a.m. EST) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. NASA will provide television and Internet coverage of prelaunch activities and liftoff of the agency's latest space science mission. After launch, WISE will scan the entire sky in infrared light with a sensitivity hundreds of times greater than ever before, picking up the glow of hundreds of millions of objects and producing millions of images. The mission will uncover objects never seen before, including the coolest stars, the universe's most luminous galaxies and some of the darkest near-Earth asteroids and comets. A prelaunch news conference will be held Dec. 9 at 1 p.m. PST (4 p.m. EST) at the NASA Vandenberg Resident Office and broadcast on NASA Television. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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NASA's WISE Infrared Satellite To Reveal New Galaxies, Stars, AsteroidsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 07, 2009 An unmanned NASA satellite will soon survey the entire sky to discover millions of uncharted stars and galaxies, asteroids, and planetary "construction zones," providing valuable new information on our solar system, the Milky Way and the universe. NASA'S Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), scheduled to launch from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on Dec. 9 or shortly after ... read more |
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