WISE Launch Photos & News Articles

WISE Launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base: Dec 13-14, 2009

Dec 13, 2009, Vandenberg AFB, SLC2 Tower Roll-Back photo credit: Gene Blevins	Dec 13, 2009, Vandenberg AFB, SLC2 happy crowd photo credit: Gene Blevins	Dec 13, 2009, Vandenberg AFB, SLC2 Group Shot photo credit: Gene Blevins
Dec 13, 2009, Vandenberg AFB, SLC2 WISE Scientists (aka wiseguys) photo credit: Gene Blevins	Dec 13, 2009, Vandenberg AFB, SLC2 WISE Scientists photo credit: Elaine Cutri	Dec 13, 2009, Vandenberg AFB, SLC2 WISE People photo credit: Gene Blevins
Dec 13, 2009, Vandenberg AFB, SLC2 WISE Delta-II Rocket & Spacecraft photo credit: T. Jarrett	Dec 13, 2009, Vandenberg AFB, SLC2 Ghostly reflection of the WISE Delta-II Rocket photo credit: Gene Blevins	Dec 13, 2009, Vandenberg AFB, SLC2 Ghostly reflection of the WISE Delta-II Rocket photo credit: T. Jarrett
Dec 13, 2009, Vandenberg AFB, SLC2 Wiseguy Tom Jarrett, w/ Ned in the background; see also Ned being interviewed by PBS photo credit: T. Jarrett/W. Clavin	Dec 13, 2009, Vandenberg AFB, SLC2 Wiseguy Roc Cutri photo credit: T. Jarrett	Dec 13, 2009, Vandenberg AFB, SLC2 Wiseguys Ned Wright, Roc Cutri, T. Jarrett photo credit: T. Jarrett/W. Clavin
Dec 14, 2009, Vandenberg AFB WISE Launch!! Spectacular hi-res photo see also the movie/video photo & video credit: NASA	Dec 14, 2009, Vandenberg AFB firey WISE Launch photo credit: ULA
Dec 14, 2009, Tujunga Canyon (CA) WISE rockets into space! photo credit: Annette & Bill Ling (and thanks to Peter Eisenhardt)	Dec 14, 2009, spied over the skies of Santa Monica WISE enters space photo credit: John Fowler
Dec 14, 2009, over Santa Maria WISE plume trail photo credit: T. Jarrett	Dec 14, 2009, over Santa Maria WISE plume trail photo credit: T. Jarrett
Dec 14, 2009, Charlottesville, Virginia WISE Blastoff Cake photo credit: Mike & Anne Skrutskie

WISE in the NEWS ...

• Hunting the brown dwarf (UK Telegraph)

• Heat-seeking WISE spacecraft to scan the skies (science news)

• Heat-Seeking WISE Spacecraft Set to Launch (US News & World REport)

• NASA Craft To Photograph Entire Universe (Voice of America)

• Infrared Space Telescope Launched From California (ABC News)

• WISE, NASA's infrared surveyor, launches successfully (Scientific American)

• Utah telescope will help map the universe (Salt Lake Trib)

• NASA launches new mapping spacecraft (LA Times)

• WISE Infrared Space Telescope Blasts Off (Aviation Week)

• NASA telescope to scan space for danger (Orlando Sentinel)

• Delta rocket launches NASA's WISE spacecraft (Santa Maria Times)

• Delta II Set For 9:09 AM West Coast Launch (Florida Today)

• A Hot Piece of Hardware: NASA's New Orbiter Will Map the Entire Sky in Infrared (Discover Mag)

• Nasa sky survey probe blasts off (BBC)

• NASA launches sky-mapping telescope (MSNBC)

• NASA Telescope To Spot Nearby Space Neighbors (NPR)

• NASA launches infrared telescope to scan entire sky (CNN)

• NASA Launches Telescope to Map Universe (CBS News)

• NASA Launches New Sky-mapping Telescope (Space.com)

• Nasa launches telescope that will map entire night sky and might even find a new planet in our solar system (UK Daily Mail)

• NASA launches WISE telescope (UK Reuters)

• New telescope sees dim objects (South Africa's News24)

• New NASA satellite blasts off on space-map mission (Sydney Morning Herald)

  See also Ned's interesting blog at Cosmic Diary

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