News and Events
March 26, 2008
GLAST Has Eyes for Gamma Rays (see article in SLAC Today)
March 13, 2008
GLAST Makes Last Terrestrial Journey (see article in SLAC Today)
December 6, 2007
GLAST Arrives at Naval Research Laboratory for Final Testing (see article in SLAC Today)
October 19, 2007
NASA Presents Awards to LAT Team Members (see article in SLAC Today)
October 17, 2007
By the Light of the Moon (see article in SLAC Today)
October16, 2007
GLAST Collaborators Rehearse Launch Activities (see article in SLAC Today)
May 21, 2007
GLAST: The Challenge of Too Much New Data (see article in SLAC Today)
May 7 , 2007
Integrated Spacecraft to Begin 4 Months of Testing

Recent activities concerning LAT integration with the spacecraft include the completion of solar array development tests. The integrated spacecraft will soon undergo more than four months of environmental testing, starting with Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) tests, at General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, in Gilbert, AZ. Pictures of the observatory are available at the GLAST Image Gallery.

March 1, 2007
GLAST Mission Operations Center Makes Contact (see article in SLAC Today)
January 11, 2007
GLAST in the News: BBC News Article: Probe studies 'extreme physics'
Comments by Dr. Julie McEnery

Note that the observatory concept depicted in the article is not the LAT, but the SIFTER
(a design once in competition with the LAT).
January 9, 2007
LAT Tests Continue; Backdoors Closed

Following its successful integration with the spacecraft, the LAT continues to undergo testing to ensure that it meets all of its performance requirements. "Test time is at a premium now that the LAT is an integrated part of the GLAST Observatory," said Jana Thayer, Flight Software Manager for the LAT ISOC. "There are no more 'backdoor connections' to the LAT; it is now powered and controlled through the spacecraft circuitry, and test time is split between the Spacecraft, LAT and GBM teams."

In addition, there are Observatory tests that exercise all three. Between now and launch, the LAT must demonstrate that its functional capability has not degraded over the course of previous environmental testing. Hardware functions and all redundant circuitry will also be tested to ensure they remain within acceptable limits.

LAT ISOC team members will continue to support these tests, both at the General Dynamics' integration facility in Scottsdale, Arizona and here at SLAC, where data collected during the tests is stored and analyzed.

December 8, 2006
LAT Instrument Successfully Integrated with the Spacecraft

Credit: General Dynamics
C4 Systems
GLAST Observatory after integration of the Large Area Space Telescope at the General Dynamics integration facility in Scottsdale, Arizona.

 

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October 31, 2006 at 8:00 p.m.
Inside an Enigma - Interview with Steve Ritz
on Nova's 'Monster of the Milky Way'
October 24, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.
Public Lecture: The Violent Universe: A Glimpse of the Cosmic Battlefield
Eduardo do Couto e Silva; SLAC's Panofsky Auditorium 7:30 p.m.
September 21, 2006
Construction Starts on LAT Operations Facility (see article in SLAC Today)
September 15, 2006
LAT Passes Environmental Tests at NRL; Will be Mated with Spacecraft Next
LAT Ships to General Dynamics

Environmental testing of the LAT at the Naval Research Laboratory has been completed, and the instrument was placed on the shipping container base shown at left and shipped to the General Dynamics (formerly Spectrum Astro) Space Systems facility in Gilbert, AZ where it will be integrated onto the spacecraft.

The succes of the team members "is borne out by the fact that we shipped within three days of the planned date; an amazing accomplishment for a project of this size and scope" stated Ken Fouts, SLAC's LAT Project Manager.
For more information and some great photos, see Ken's presentation at a recent ISOC 'All Hands' meeting.