Apparantly a group launched a balloon-based telescope over the arctic a week ago. Generally things went okay with the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimetre Telescope (BLAST, who comes up with these names? ). Anyone know much else about the project?

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Here's the CSA site on it:

http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/sciences/blast.asp

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Some smart cookie in the department who knows you get more funding if you have a cute, memorable, and easy to pronounce acronym. They could just as easily have called it the Grand Télescope Ballon-soutenu de Secondaire-millimètre D'Ouverture, but then they'd have had to try and sell a GTBSD'O to the Suits.

Or, a D'Oh for short...Not a good sign.

Space telescope has safe landing

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Thanks, that's a nice link for laymen like me.

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Wildlife Crowds Around Arctic Telescope

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