GLASTcast Episode 4: Launching a Spacecraft

The GLAST satellite will launch in 2008 from Cape Canaveral Air Station, on Florida's east coast. GLAST will be carried on a Delta II Heavy launch vehicle, with 9 solid rocket boosters. GLAST is the first imaging gamma-ray observatory to survey the entire sky every day and with high sensitivity. It will give scientists a unique opportunity to learn about the ever-changing Universe at extreme energies.

Interviews with (in order of appearance):

Peter Michaelson - Large Area Telescope (LAT) Principal Investigator, Stanford University

Lynn Cominsky - GLAST Astrophysicist and Education and Public Outreach Lead, Sonoma State University

David Thompson - GLAST Deputy Project Scientist, NASA Goddard

Kevin Grady - GLAST Project Manager, NASA Goddard

Neil Johnson - Large Area Telescope (LAT) Deputy Principal Investigator, US Naval Research Lab

Jonathan Ormes - Large Area Telescope (LAT) Senior Scientist Advisory Committee, University of Denver

Charles "Chip" Meegan - GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM) Principal Investigator, NASA Marshall

Luke Drury - Professor of Astronomy, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

Per Carlson - Professor of Elementary Particle Physics, Manne Siegbahn Laboratory

Isabelle Grenier - Principal Investigator of the GLAST French contribution, French Atomic Energy Commission