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NASA's ComPair gamma-ray hunting mission prepares for balloon flight

Engineers and scientists have shipped NASA's ComPair instrument to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, ahead of its scheduled August flight early in NASA's 2023 fall balloon campaign. ComPair's goal is to test new technologies for studying gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light. It was assembled and tested at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "The gamma-ray energy range we're targeting with ComPair isn't well covered by current observatories," said Carolyn Kierans, the ....

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