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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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(contracted; show full)osses that may not be easily overcome. The lower troposphere is the densest layer of the atmosphere, and some of these issues may be mitigated by using a space gun with a "gun barrel" reaching above it (e.g. a gun emplacement on a mountaintop). A space gun, by itself, is generally not capable of placing objects into stable orbit around the planet, unless the objects are able to perform course corrections after launch.”, from Wikipedia [[w:Space gun|space gun]].

==Sounding rockets==
[[Image:Black
  _Brant 9 _8_Microcalorimeter  _launch.gif|thumb|left|150px|Carried aloft on a Black Brant 9 sounding rocket such as this, the calorimeter arrays observed the diffuse soft X-ray emission from a large solid angle at high galactic latitude. Credit: .]]
Additional technology used to benefit astronomy includes [[w:Sounding rockets|sounding rockets]] which may carry gamma-ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, and infrared detectors to high altitude to view individual sources and the background for each wavelength band observed.

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