GLAST Launch and Deployment

  • Released Friday, September 14th, 2007
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:55PM
  • ID: 20123

GLAST's launch is scheduled for early 2008 from Cape Canaveral Air Station on Florida's eastern coast. GLAST will be carried on a Delta II Heavy launch vehicle, with 9 solid rocket boosters. The solids are actually from the Delta III series (hence the term 'heavy'), mounted on a Delta II. It has a 10-foot fairing and two stages. Stowed in the launch vehicle, the spacecraft is 9.2 feet (2.8 meters) high by 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) in diameter. Once deployed, GLAST becomes a little bit taller and much wider (15 meters) with the Ku-band antenna deployed and the solar arrays extended.

This animation begins with a Delta rocket launch. Once the vehicle reaches orbit, the satellite deploys into its final configuration.

For More Information

See http://www.nasa.gov/GLAST

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Fermi (Collected with the LAT sensor)
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Fermi Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Large Area Telescope (LAT)

Dataset can be found at: http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov

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