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there's also dsi you'll see there's a

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couple dsi people back there so

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they they operate the telescope and it's

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designed for 20-year lifetimes and we've

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just started

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we have more flights and longer flights

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the operation is in palmdale california

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just north of la

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and

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the science center is in nasa ames it's

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just south of san francisco so we've got

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two nasa centers working together on

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this very important uh project we

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basically float the whole telescope it's

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10 metric tons and

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it just floats there there are motors

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then that move it around there are

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gyroscopes that keep it accurately

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pointed

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the sp didn't fly that long because it

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wasn't

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all that profitable i think

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and so it actually doesn't have that

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many hours on it relative to a

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and they refurbished it so it's in

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really good shape so i think it could go

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on longer than 20 years easily also this

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time of year the water vapor is actually

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very low

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uh so the flying conditions are quite

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good definitely one of the big pluses

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for sofia is the ability to move one

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instant put one instrument on take the

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science then take it off and now we are

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evacuating our fire sets because our

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detectors are superconductive detectors

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they have to be cooled down minus 270

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degrees c and later this afternoon we

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will fill the cryostats with blinky's

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nitrogen

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we get this low temperature to get our

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defective operation christchurch is

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certainly a big

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part of the answer both because you have

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really good weather here this time of

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year and you have some really nice

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objects in the sky to study the whole

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milky way in the south

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where stars are forming like nowhere

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else

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there's also the magellanic clouds that

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are forming stars different because they

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have a whole different

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metallicity that's how many atoms

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of heavy

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oxygen and nitrogen are in between the

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stars and

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people are extremely interested in this

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question for questions about how did the