Getting your player ready...
After several days of delays, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer satellite built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies was successfully launched Monday.
Carrying the spacecraft aloft was a Delta II rocket provided by United Launch Alliance of Centennial.
Ball Aerospace of Boulder designed and built the WISE spacecraft, led all satellite level testing and is supporting operations under contract to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
WISE will spend 10 months surveying the entire sky in infrared light to measure never-before-seen objects such as asteroids and dim stars.
