{"id":101,"date":"2009-02-22T16:43:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T21:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/02\/22\/planck-preparing-for-launch\/"},"modified":"2009-02-22T16:43:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T21:43:30","slug":"planck-preparing-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/02\/22\/planck-preparing-for-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Planck preparing for launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rssd.esa.int\/index.php?project=planck\">Planck Surveyor<\/a>, the European Space Agency&#8217;s satellite-borne microwave background telescope, is preparing for launch on April 16.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewjaffe.net\/blog\/science\/000390.html\">Andrew Jaffe<\/a> has some pictures of the preparations.<\/p>\n<p>Planck will map the microwave background with finer resolution than NASA&#8217;s WMAP satellite.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll also cover a considerably broader range of frequencies.\u00a0 This is helpful in separating the microwave background from other, more local sources of radiation.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m still officially a member of the Planck team in some sense, although I haven&#8217;t done any real work on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Planck Surveyor, the European Space Agency&#8217;s satellite-borne microwave background telescope, is preparing for launch on April 16.\u00a0 Andrew Jaffe has some pictures of the preparations. Planck will map the microwave background with finer resolution than NASA&#8217;s WMAP satellite.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll also cover a considerably broader range of frequencies.\u00a0 This is helpful in separating the microwave &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/02\/22\/planck-preparing-for-launch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Planck preparing for launch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-cosmology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}