GLAST

Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope

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Image Gallery - A short story of GLAST by Images

The first step: one Silicon Strip Detector (SSD) One tray Vibration table in Centrotecnica used for environmental vib test on trays 2001-2003: Tray on the
vibration table

Thermal chamber used for thermal tests on trays Trays thermal test set up (started in 2001) Assembly of pre-engineering model tower at SLAC (California) - February 2002 Assembly of the pre-engineering model tower at SLAC

Vibration test of the pre-engineering model tower at NASA-Ames
(CA, February 2002)
A tower formed by
a stack of 19 trays
Tower on a vibration table in Alenia laboratories in Rome
(Dec 2003-September 2005)
Set-up of first thermal vacuum test on engineering model tower
(January 2004)

Thermal vacuum tests
on flight towers
(March 2004-September 2005)
Thermal Vacuum test
set up
Cut of the Thermal Blanket for the Thermal vacuum
test set up
Thermal Vacuum test
set up

Thermal Vacuum test for towers 4 and 5 Calibration Unit (CU) used for Beam Test @ CERN (August-September 2006)
and GSI (November 2006)
Beam Test Set-up Area
at CERN PS
Beam Test Set-up Area
at CERN SPS

CU at CERN-SPS Experimental area at
CERN SPS
Installation of the first Tracker Tower on the GRID
(April 2005)
2nd Tracker Tower installed in the Grid (April 2005)

6 Tracker towers integrated
into the GRID
16 Tracker towers integrated into the Grid LAT without ACD One real event collected during the Ground Cosmic-Ray Test
after assembly
One module of LAT Calorimeter One tile of the Anti-Coincidence Detector (ACD) The assembled ACD The assembled ACD

Observatory assembled Observatory assembled at General Dynamics (GD) GLAST Observatory at GD GLAST Observatory goes to NRL (Washington DC)
for final Environmental Testing
(November 2007)

The truck carrying the Delta II arrives at
Kennedy Space Center
Delta 2 rocket at its arrival
at KSC
Delta II at the launch pad GLAST spacecraft

Delta II rocket's second stage is put in place GLAST Observatory at NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
during assembly in
Delta II rocket
GLAST Observatory in
the Delta II rocket
Delta II is closed:
GLAST Under Wraps
 

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NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the United States.