Monday, December 14, 2009

WISE Ready to Soar Into Space

The tower around the Delta II rocket carrying WISE has been rolled back
A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with WISE tucked in its nose cone. Image credit: United Launch Alliance
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All systems are "Go" for the Monday morning launch attempt of NASA'S Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The weather forecast calls for 80-percent favorable conditions at launch time. A tower around the rocket that will boost WISE to space was rolled back tonight. WISE is safely tucked inside the rocket's nose cone.

The launch window opens at 6:09:33 a.m. PST (9:09:33 a.m. EST). The WISE space telescope will scan the whole sky in infrared light, uncovering hidden cosmic objects, like the coolest stars, dark asteroids and the most luminous galaxies.

More information is online at http://www.nasa.gov/wise and http://wise.astro.ucla.edu and http://jpl.nasa.gov/wise.



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