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NASA Gravity Probe Launched

Posted by michael on from the up-up-and-away dept.

ping pong writes "Forty-five years in the making and 24 hours late, NASA launched the $700 million satellite into orbit today to test Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. The satellite, which was inserted into a polar orbit, will spend two months getting ready, then 16 months making measurements." NASA's mission news has more.

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  1. Not always hard by Pi_0's+don't+shower · · Score: 5, Informative

    The James Webb Space telescope, when launched, will be temperature controlled by simply putting a shield around it on the sun-side, keeping the telescope side cool and out of sunlight.

    A pretty simple idea; as once it cools down to equilibrium temperature, there'll be nothing to heat it up.