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A $690 million mission to explore the most extreme environments in the universe is getting under way in earnest.
NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope -- GLAST -- is now circling Earth in its intended orbit 301 miles above the planet after a successful launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket.

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1 33053U 08029A   08163.85227622  .00000278  00000-0  00000+0 0    37
2 33053 025.5880 323.6291 0013841 213.2401 146.7275 15.04844786    32


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LAUNCH GLAST Telescope - June 11, 2008




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Main engine cutoff

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Separation
All systems nominal

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Launch

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T minus 3 minutes

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Countdown commencing

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Poll.
All systems go.

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Hold extended because the Antigua tracking station was offline.
The station is now back online.

Countdown commencing

Launch at 16:05 GMT

-- Edited by Blobrana at 16:58, 2008-06-11

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