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... RELEASE: 10-314'' ''NASA-GERMAN SOFIA OBSERVATORY COMPLETES FIRST SCIENCE FLIGHT'' MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, completed the first of three science flights on Wednesday ... , Germany, will be installed in the observatory for three flights during the second phase of the program. "The first science flight showed that the SOFIA observatory works very well, said Alois Himmes ...

... general manager of Northrop Grumman Space Systems. We have always had high confidence that our observatory design would meet the goals of this pioneering science mission. This achievement testifies to that ... , assembly and testing prior to delivery for observatory integration and testing scheduled to begin in 2012. The Webb is the premier next-generation space observatory for exploring deep space phenomena from distant ...

... Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra program while the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, controls Chandra's science and flight operations. The Hubble Space Telescope is ... holes 1.3 billion light-years away were captured by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) facilities in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana. This event marked the first-ever detection ...

... aimed, and did not attain orbital speed, Orbiting Solar Observatory OSO -C was third in a series of eight orbiting solar observatories planned by NASA. First two satellites were launched from Kennedy ... , Orbiting Solar Observatory OSO -C had provided more than 2,000 hrs, of scientific information during its lifetime; Orbiting Solar Observatory OSO II was still operating. The Orbiting Solar Observatory program was designed ...

... Orbiting Geophysical Observatory OGO II Orbiting Geophysical Observatory ( Orbiting Geophysical Observatory OGO -C) was launched by NASA from Vandenberg AFB with Thrust-Augmented Thor-Agena D ... -axis stabilization, Second of the seven spacecraft programed for NASA's Orbiting Geophysical Observatory OGO program, Orbiting Geophysical Observatory OGO II weighed 1,150 lb, and contained more than 100,000 parts ...

... into failures of Orbiting Geophysical Observatory OGO I, II, III, Orbiting Astronomical Observatory OAO I, and NIMBUS I. Questions under investigation included: (1) Is the expenditure on observatory satellites wise? (2) Are the ... Geophysical Observatory OGO . Something less than 100 percent but more than 75 percent of Orbiting Geophysical Observatory OGO 's experiment return has been outstandingly successful. Orbiting Geophysical Observatory OGO 1 and Orbiting Geophysical Observatory ...

... . At same meeting, Joseph Purcell, Orbiting Astronomical Observatory OAO Project Manager at Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC , said Orbiting Astronomical Observatory OAO II's observatory control system had exceeded its pointing accuracy requirement of one minute of arc by factor of two. "A subsequent Orbiting Astronomical Observatory OAO will be ...

... ’s SOLAR TERRESTRIAL RELATIONS OBSERVATORY STEREO mission had confirmed the existence of the so-called solar tsunami, a controversial phenomenon that the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory ( Solar and Heliospheric Observatory SOHO ) mission had first observed in 1997. In May of that year, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory SOHO craft had recorded a ...

... U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., and 1973 and 1974 at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. He attended graduate school at Lick Observatory, University of California ... the successful deployment of the Chandra X-ray Observatory , the third of NASA's Great Observatories after Hubble Space Telescope and the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory . Dr. Hawley also served as the primary ...

... the initial shock and dismay, astronomers and engineers turned their attention to fixing the orbiting observatory. The Space Telescope Science Institute has come up with a plan to restore Hubble to ... One Hundred - Preview of Gaspra. 156 - THE GAMMA RAY OBSERVATORY The Space Shuttle Atlantis was scheduled to launch the Gamma Ray Observatory in early April. This huge spacecraft will investigate some of ...

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