GLAST blog and other NASA snippets

NASA is really getting into the blog thing...

GLAST blog is up and running, with mission performance updates and near future action items etc.
Steve Ritz himself is running it.

GLAST seem to be doing fine, some minor glitches shaken out, I'm sure they gave the people involved a nice adrenaline rush, but in retrospect, from the outside, after they've been solved, they sound like the normal sort of glitches most missions go through that are sorted out by the rather good mission people...
GAST has done some pointing observations and is now in survey mode - calibration is starting and the science data antenna will be checked out today.

There is a small collective of official NASA blogs now, some are rather sparse, some are rather interesting, some are both.
Strangely enough, like most all blog collections...

In other news, Phoenix is plodding along on Mars, digging more trenches.
Things are moving at a slower pace, as reflected by the Phoenix blog traffic, I presume there will be some time before we hear about the results of the baking of the first sample collected, and it will also be some time before the digger tackles the "hard white stuff", and we find out if it is really water ice - and if so, how they are going to shake some of it into some of the ovens...

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