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GLIDE Spacecraft to be Built by Ball Aerospace

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Tom Patton
Feb 16, 2021
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Ball Aerospace has been selected to build the spacecraft for NASA's Global Lyman-alpha Imager of the Dynamic Exosphere (GLIDE) heliophysics science Mission of Opportunity. GLIDE will study variability in Earth's exosphere, the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere where it touches space, by tracking far ultraviolet light emitted from hydrogen.

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