Where is Lightyear?

Where is Lightyear?

A new era begins for the world’s most expensive space telescope, and with it, the story of a revolution.

After a year of preparation and planning, our space telescopes have been launched into space. This is the story of how they will make, capture, and image light and galaxies like never before, transforming our understanding of the universe. But it’s also the story of a revolution in space science.

This revolution begins, however, at our planet.

WhenWhere is Lightyear?

Lightyear is a satellite-based infrared planet-finding telescope launched by Intelsat in December 2010. The telescope is a fully steerable spacecraft that uses the satellite’s Sun-Earth L2 communications relay as a telescope. Its primary purpose is to obtain the high accuracy of 1 arcsec (one centimeter) at 10-micron wavelengths that has been a significant contribution to the observations made by previous space-based infrared telescopes.

At an altitude of 500 kilometers (310 milesWhere is Lightyear? There it is, on the roof!” [circled in blue below] The new lightyear, lightyear 2, was launched by Ford Motor Co. and the U.S. Navy on April Fools’ Day.

When you’re flying a plane, flying it through clouds is like driving through the proverbial fog of war, with the sun barely at your back and the sky growing darker by the second. But for those of us in the cockpit

title: Where is Lightyear?

Where is Lightyear?

A new era begins for the world’s most expensive space telescope, and with it, the story of a revolution.

After a year of preparation and planning, our space telescopes have been launched into space. This is the story of how they will make, capture, and image light and galaxies like never before, transforming our understanding of the universe. But it’s also the story of a revolution in space science.

This revolution begins, however, at our planet.

WhenWhere is Lightyear?

Lightyear is a satellite-based infrared planet-finding telescope launched by Intelsat in December 2010. The telescope is a fully steerable spacecraft that uses the satellite’s Sun-Earth L2 communications relay as a telescope. Its primary purpose is to obtain the high accuracy of 1 arcsec (one centimeter) at 10-micron wavelengths that has been a significant contribution to the observations made by previous space-based infrared telescopes.

At an altitude of 500 kilometers (310 milesWhere is Lightyear? There it is, on the roof!” [circled in blue below] The new lightyear, lightyear 2, was launched by Ford Motor Co. and the U.S. Navy on April Fools’ Day.

When you’re flying a plane, flying it through clouds is like driving through the proverbial fog of war, with the sun barely at your back and the sky growing darker by the second. But for those of us in the cockpit