GLAST observatory reaches orbit after launch on Delta II Heavy

NASA’s Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is in orbit following a successful launch from Launch Complex 17B at Cape Canaveral, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II 7920 Heavy rocket at about 12:05 p.m. EDT June 11. The latest in NASA’s Great Observatory series that began in 1990...

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