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In the Multi-Payload Processing Facility, workers check the deployment
of the cover of the telescope on the GALEX satellite. The Galaxy Evolution
Explorer (GALEX) is an orbiting space telescope that will observe galaxies
in ultraviolet light across 10 billion years of cosmic history. Led by the California
Institute of Technology, GALEX will conduct several first-of-a-kind sky surveys,
including an extra-galactic (beyond our galaxy) ultraviolet all-sky survey. During
its 29-month mission GALEX will produce the first comprehensive map of a
Universe of galaxies under construction, bringing more understanding of how
galaxies like the Milky Way were formed. GALEX is due to be launched from
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station March 25 via a Pegasus rocket.
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NASA
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