Topic: WISE, NASA's infrared surveyor, launches successfully

[sam]

After a series of delays, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) began its mission Monday morning, rocketing toward orbit at 9:09 A.M. (Eastern Standard Time). WISE's launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California was initially delayed because of a scheduling conflict with a satellite launch on the East Coast, then twice pushed back due to an anomaly in a steering engine on its booster rocket.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=wise-nasas-infrared-surveyor-launch-2009-12-14

[Clive]

This is going to make some stunning discoveries.  Astronomers are so lucky these days with so much new information being made available almost every day.  A hundred years ago they were lucky to make a new discovery once a month.

[sam]

some might say too much info.

[Clive]

It would be hard to disagree with that Sam.