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[[Image:Skylab-73-HC-440HR.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Saturn V SA-513 lifts off to boost the Skylab Orbital Workshop into Earth orbit on March 14, 1973. Credit: NASA.]]
Astronomy is performed by location and is subject to local conditions. The shapes and sizes of observatories have changed over time, as have their altitude. The motivations for putting an observatory manned or unmanned at different altitudes has led to a great variety in '''lofting technology'''.
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"Bolometers are currently the best choice for sensitive direct detection of radiation at wavelengths between 200 μm and 2 mm (e.g., Refs. 1 and 2). [...] a bolometer operates by measuring the heating due to absorbed energy [... It] is sensitive to any type of energy reaching the absorber. [... Filtering does] not prevent cosmic, gamma, and x rays from reaching a bolometer."<ref name=Woodcraft>{{ cite journal
|author=Adam L. Woodcraft
, ⏎
|author2=Rashmi V. Sudiwala, ⏎
|author3=Peter A. R. Ade, ⏎
|author4=Matthew J. Griffin, ⏎
|author5=Elley Wakui, ⏎
|author6=Ravinder S. Bhatia, ⏎
|author7=Andrew E. Lange, ⏎
|author8=James J. Bock, ⏎
|author9=Anthony D. Turner, ⏎
|author10=Minhee H. Yun, and ⏎
|author11=Jeffrey W. Beeman
|title=Predicting the response of a submillimeter bolometer to cosmic rays
|journal=Applied Optics
|month=September 1,
|year=2003
|volume=42
|issue=25
|pages=5009-16
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The MeV Auroral X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy experiment (MAXIS) is carried aloft by a balloon for a 450 h flight from McMurdo Station, Antarctica. The MAXIS flight detected an auroral X-ray event possibly associated with the solar wind as it interacted with the upper atmosphere between January 22nd and 26th, 2000.<ref name= Millan >{{ cite journal
|author=R. M. Millan
, R. P. Lin, ⏎
|author2=R. P. Lin
|author3=D. M. Smith, ⏎
|author4=K. R. Lorentzen, and ⏎
|author5=M. P. McCarthy
|title=X-ray observations of MeV electron precipitation with a balloon-borne germanium spectrometer
|journal=Geophysical Research Letters
|month=December
|year=2002
|volume=29
|issue=24
|pages=2194-7
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[[Image:Tour-v1-2.svg|thumb|left|250px|The primary mission trajectory of Voyager 1 is shown in the figure. Credit: .]]
'''''Pioneer 10''''' is a 258-kilogram [[w:Robotic spacecraft|robotic]] [[w:space probe|space probe]] that completed the first mission to the planet [[Jupiter/Keynote lecture|Jupiter]]<ref name=Fimmel>{{ cite book
|title=SP-349/396 PIONEER ODYSSEY
|author=R. O. Fimmel
, ⏎
|author2=W. Swindell, and ⏎
|author3=E. Burgess
|date=1974
|publisher=NASA-Ames Research Center
|url=http://history.nasa.gov/SP-349/ch8.htm
|accessdate=2011-01-09
}}</ref> and became the first spacecraft to achieve [[w:escape velocity|escape velocity]] from the [[w:Solar System|Solar System]].

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