Orbital to launch NASA astronomy satellite today
Orbital Sciences Corp. is scheduled to orbit NASA's Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) today with a Pegasus XL rocket air-launched off the California coast. Weighing only 625 pounds, SWAS is designed to study the composition and cooling mechanisms of interstellar clouds, which collapse to...
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