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UA researchers receive grant to build new space telescope – Arizona Public Media
The Aspera project is expected to launch in 2024.
University of Arizona scientists are getting ready to build a new orbiting space telescope.
NASA informed the team earlier this month that their project was chosen for one of the space program’s four Astrophysics Pioneers missions. The group will receive 20 million dollars in NASA funding to construct the telescope at UA.
Principal investigator Carlos Vargas says the telescope, called Aspera, is designed to reveal the characteristics of gases between galaxies.
“This has been a science question that…
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