The way is clear for WISE
Visit to Vandenberg
August 22, 2009Filling WISE
October 30, 2009
Worldview 2 just launched from SLC-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base. WISE is scheduled to follow in 60 days on Dec 7. Since 60 days is the minimum spacing desired between launches, it was important for Worldview 2 to launch and it did.
60 days and countng!
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.
