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Fourth and Final 'Great Observatory' To Launch Soon

Posted by michael on from the covering-all-the-bases dept.

Uosdwis writes "The New York Times (FRYYY) has an article about SIRTF, the fourth and last 'Great Observatory'. It is a Space based Infra Red Telescope Facility which will extend the work of The Hubble telescope, The Compton Gamma Ray telescope and The Chandra X-Ray telescope. SIRTF is quite an amazing project using new ideas such as an Earth Trailing starting from an L1 orbit, and cooling only the intruments. Saved tax payers over $1 billion in redesigns. Check it out!"

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  1. archive.nytimes.com by breon.halling · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's the article -- no registration needed.

    If you ever need to check a NYTimes article, replace "www.nytimes.com" with "archive.nytimes.com" in the URL.

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