Gamma ray, stellar mapping spacecraft chosen for next MIDEX missions

NASA has picked spacecraft designed to peer at gamma ray sources minutes after they appear and to map the positions and brightness of some 40 million stars as the next medium-class explorer (MIDEX) missions. The Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer, scheduled t be launched in 2003 at a total cost to NASA...

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