GLAST Launch and Deployment
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- Visualizations by:
- Walt Feimer
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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.
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Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
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Animator
- Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
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Scientist
- Steven Ritz (NASA/GSFC)
Missions
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Fermi (Collected with the LAT sensor)
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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