* Astronomy

University of New Hampshires Space Science Centre has opened a satellite test laboratory, a facility that is intended to allow a quicker, more economical turnaround in testing satellite components built at the center.
The $1 million National Science Foundation-funded lab provides space scientists, students, and industrial partners with a thermal vacuum chamber to test satellite components in space-like conditions and a clean-room for assembly of small satellite payloads. Scientist Roy Torbert is principal investigator for the centers role in NASAs Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, a four-satellite mission set to launch in 2014 to study phenomena in Earths magnetosphere.

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