GLAST Gamma-Ray
Large Area Space Telescop
Welcome to homepage of the GLAST INFN-Perugia
group. The GLAST project (Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope: GLAST@SLAC/Stanford
LAT instrument site, GLAST@Goddard/NASA
site) is an astrophysics and astro-particle physics partnership
exploring the high energy gamma-ray universe. This NASA mission (GLAST-NASA-portal)
was successfully launched in Wed. 11 June 2008 from Cape Canaveral,
USA. The satellite has a main modular instrument (the Large Area
Telescope, LAT) formed by an array of 16 towers, each with a tracker
based on silicon mircostrip detectors and a calorimeter. This main
instrument is designed for making observations of cosmic gamma-ray
sources with energy between 20 MeV and 300 GeV. The Italian
collaboration has contributed in the LAT
subsystem construction and test, and is funded by INFN,
with the participation of ASI and INAF. The GLAST LAT is funded in
the US by NASA and the Department of Energy, and by government
agencies in Italy, France, Japan, and Sweden. The GLAST project
follows in the footsteps of the successful CGRO-EGRET
mission, with a nominal mission of five years and a goal for an
extension to a ten-year mission.
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