... At Last, GLAST . ... Credit Copyright: Jerry Cannon, Robert Murray, NASA Explanation: Rising through a billowing cloud of smoke, this Delta II rocket left Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's launch pad 17-B Wednesday at 12:05 pm EDT. Snug in the payload section was GLAST, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope , now in orbit around planet Earth. GLAST's detector technology was developed for use in terrestrial particle accelerators . ... Publications with keywords: telescope - rocket . ...