News and Events from 2007
December 19, 2007
NASA's GLAST Satellite Gets Unwrapped for the Holidays
Everyone likes getting high-tech presents for Christmas and Hanukkah, and the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington received a wonderful present this year: NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST).
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November 30, 2007
NASA's GLAST Satellite Arrives at Naval Research Lab for Testing
NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) has arrived at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington for its final round of testing.
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November 05, 2007
GLAST Will Have a Check-Up by the Light of the Moon
The gently glowing moon is more than just a pretty ball in the sky—for gamma-ray astronomers, the moon could become a unique target for calibrating instruments such as the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST).
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October 29, 2007
GLAST's Dance Card Begins to Fill
The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is scheduled for launch early next year, and although it will observe a great variety of interesting high-energy sources, one type of object in particular is expected to dominate the gamma-ray sky: a special class of active galactic nuclei known as "blazars."
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October 22, 2007
NASA Presents Awards to LAT Team Members
On Friday, October 19, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) Project awarded certificates of appreciation to the 58 members of the LAT Environmental Test team, on behalf of the NASA Goddard Flight Center.
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October 16, 2007
GLAST Collaborators Rehearse Launch Activities
The operations center for the Large Area Telescope (LAT) at SLAC will be ready when the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is launched into orbit next spring.
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October 1, 2007
2008 GLAST Fellowship Program
The NASA Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Program is initiating a Fellowship Program. NASA plans to award up to 3 GLAST fellowships in 2008. The goal of these fellowships is to stimulate an infusion of new ideas, techniques, and approaches that will enhance the scientific return of GLAST which will be launched in early 2008.
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September 20, 2007
NASA to Launch Gamma-Ray Telescope
AP article about GLAST: "A new NASA space telescope will give scientists a peek at some of the most energetic objects and events in the universe. The new Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope to be launched next spring doesn't see visible light like our eyes, but gamma rays, the most energetic photons in the electromagnetic spectrum."
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August 21, 2007
NOAO-GLAST Cooperative Arrangement
The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) and the GLAST mission have formed a long-term cooperative arrangement in which NOAO commits observing time on its optical telescopes for coordinated observations with GLAST. This observing time will be available on a competitive basis during Cycle 1 of the GLAST Guest Investigator program.
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July 19, 2007
Media Invited for NASA 'GLAST' Media Day to Explore Extreme Universe
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. invites reporters to participate in a special media day that will highlight NASA's upcoming Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) mission. GLAST Media Day will be held on Wed., Sept. 19, 2007 from 9:00 a.m. to 12 p.m. EDT.
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June 26, 2007
NASA's New Gamma Ray Satellite Currently Lodging in a Comfortable 'Clean Room'
NASA's Gamma ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) awaits its launch in December this year [no earlier than January 31, 2008] and is currently living in a "clean room" at General Dynamics in Gilbert, Ariz., while it's being checked and tested.
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June 14, 2007
New GLAST Launch Readiness Date
Preparations for the launch proceed with many successful tests. In the current mission schedule GLAST will be launched no earlier than January 31, 2008. The proposal deadline for the first cycle of the GI program remains September 7, 2007.
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June 5, 2007
National Radio Astronomy Observatory Teams With NASA Gamma-ray Satellite
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) is teaming with NASA's upcoming Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) to allow astronomers to use both the orbiting facility and ground-based radio telescopes to maximize their scientific payoff. Under the new, streamlined process, astronomers can compete for coordinated observing time and support from both GLAST and NRAO's radio telescopes.
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April 11, 2007
NASA's GLAST Mission One Step Closer To Launch
NASA's next major space observatory, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), is one step closer to unveiling the mysteries of the high-energy universe. Almost all the components have been assembled onto the spacecraft, which will undergo a review this week before environmental testing begins at the primary contractor, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems in Gilbert, Ariz.
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April 9, 2007
Chicago-area GLAST Workshop at ANL
A GLAST workshop will be held in the Chicago-area at Argonne National Laboratory on Friday, the 13th of April.
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February 6, 2007
Scientists Find High Energy Systems Hidden in 'Gas Cocoon'
Astronomers have found a new class of objects in space: a neutron star orbiting inside a cocoon of cold gas and/or dust that hides a bloated supergiant star. In a strange twist of fate, these objects may be tremendously luminous, but the enshrouding cocoon absorbs almost all their emission, making them nearly invisible to telescopes on Earth until now.
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February 6, 2007
High-Energy 'Relic' Wind Reveals Past Behavior of Dead Stars
A team of astronomers from France and South Africa announced the first catalog of a new type of gamma-ray source, a dozen clouds of "relic" radiation from dead stars that reveal information about the energetic past of these celestial objects.
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January 17, 2007
Getting Involved With GLAST
A workshop on how to get involved with GLAST was held on January 17, 2007 at GSFC. The agenda and presentations are now online.
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