Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST)
Mission Characteristics
Lifetime: | 2005 - 2006 |
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Area Coverage: | Targeted |
Instruments: | The Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope (BLAST) is a 2-m telescope that conducted the first wide-area (> many square degrees) sub-mm surveys at wavelengths 250--500 µm. The telescope uses a prototype of the SPIRE camera for the Herschel satellite. |
Science Products Generated: | Processed map data in survey fields. |