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June 9, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MEDIA CONTACT:
Gary Dorsey,
gdd@jhu.edu
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FUSE Update:
Satellite Launch "Go" for June 23
A towering 3,000-pound satellite that will test the Big Bang
theory and collect the most complete observations yet of the
Milky Way's mysterious star-making machinery will launch on
Wednesday, June 23, from Cape Canaveral Air Station in
Florida.
The Far Ultraviolet
Spectroscopic Explorer will begin its three-year
mission atop a Delta II launch vehicle at 11:39 a.m. EDT. The
launch will be broadcast live from the Cape on NASA Television,
with coverage beginning about 10 a.m.
The FUSE mission is the first of this size managed by an academic
department in a university. The project is considered a
pathfinder because of a unique collaboration with NASA that has
given the primary leadership to The Johns Hopkins University. The
project manager and the principal investigator are from the
university's Department of
Physics and Astronomy. The spacecraft control center is
located on the first floor of the Bloomberg Center for Physics
and Astronomy on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus in
Baltimore.
FUSE is a joint project of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration and the Johns Hopkins University in collaboration
with:
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (France), the Canadian Space
Agency, the
University of Colorado, and the University of California,
Berkeley.
Launch status updates available at:
http://fuse.pha.jhu.edu/facts/launch.html
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