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MSSL
delivers UVOT for NASA's Swift Mission
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On
Thursday May 30th, the UVOT was taken on a special United States Air
Force flight from RAF Mildenhall to NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center in Maryland, Washington, DC.
Click
on preview to download image ~250kB (~6.5MB uncompressed)
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| Sealing
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| Manoeuvring
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Further
Information:
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• Click
here to view Swift
team photo
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• Click
here to view images
of Swift UVOT delivery
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• Click
here for a link
to NASA's SWIFT homepage
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• Click
here for a link to the XMM-Optical
Monitor homepage
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