WISE Launch
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November 27, 2009Internet video fail
December 18, 2009
My WISE satellite launch December 14! I had to be in the MDC control room, and was told it was impolite to rush out at launch and watch the rocket go by, so I had to watch the TV screens in the MDC. So the last time I got to see WISE was the night before during the tower rollback:
The Delta II rocket with WISE in the fairing after the service tower was rolled back the night before the launch.
nwright
Ned Wright, 65 years old, is a professor at UCLA. He did far-infrared observations using a 102-cm balloon-borne telescope for his PhD thesis, and has since observed with the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, and the space-based COBE, WMAP, Spitzer and WISE missions.
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Superb photo with the launch vehicle in the background.
Let’s hope WISE will be a success in order to replace the IRAS catalogues…
Philip Corneille