NASA Free Activity Learning Event – StarBurst: Gamma-Ray Hunter

• Talk Title: NASA’s StarBurst Mission
• Talk Description: StarBurst is one of NASA’s new Pioneer-class missions and is designed to act as an all-sky monitor for powerful cosmic explosions across the universe. About the size of a small refrigerator when stowed for launch, this 650 lb. satellite will orbit Earth at an altitude of over 300 miles and continuously monitor the sky at gamma-ray wavelengths to catch the telltale sign of supernovae and collisions of neutron stars. StarBurst will use NASA’s constellation of communication satellites to send rapid alerts to astronomers around the world so they can immediately follow up on these detections. In this talk, Dr. Dan Kocevski will describe the scientific motivation for the mission as well as the process of building and preparing the spacecraft for launch.
• Speaker: Dr. Daniel Kocevski (NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center)
• Speaker Bio: Dr. Daniel Kocevski is an astrophysicist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center where he studies the universe using NASA’s suit of space-based observatories.
• Webinar Connection Info:
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  • Meeting ID: 230 059 016 606 6
  • Passcode: wY9S8UT7
  • Join by phone: +1-256-715-9946 (phone conference ID: 827 530 24#)

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