Powerful antenna attached to NASA's GLAST satellite

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General Dynamics technicians sitting under the GLAST spacecraft install a high-gain antenna on the spacecraft. Credit: NASA Kim Shiflett
General Dynamics technicians, sitting under the GLAST spacecraft install a high-gain antenna on the spacecraft. Credit: NASA/ Kim Shiflett

The powerful antenna system that will enable NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) to communicate with stations on Earth has been successfully connected to the spacecraft in the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla.


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