June 18, 2008
After several delays due to technical difficulties with its Delta II Rocket, The GLAST (Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope) Observatory was launched Wednesday, June 11 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
One of the most expensive and ambitious astronomy/astrophysics missions launched by NASA since the agency's Great Observatory series began with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990, GLAST is expected to make such unprecedented observations that it may reveal a new class of physics involved with cold dark matter, one of the major but largely unobserved constituents of the universe. The National Academy of Sciences has designated GLAST as one of the nation's highest priority scientific satellite developments.
GLAST's science objectives include exploring the most extreme energy environments in the universe, probing the mysterious dark matter, exploring how black holes accelerate immense jets of material to nearly light speed, and helping crack the mysteries of gamma-ray bursts
NASA has just released the first two episodes of the GLASTcast podcast series, and you can now find the videos at any of the following locations:
Peggy Maher
Aerospace Education Specialist
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771-0001
margaret.j.maher@nasa.gov
office: 301-286-1977
fax: 301-286-1655
http://www.nasa.gov
http://education.gsfc.nasa.gov
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