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We only fly at night. Well, technically speaking, we can observe with the sun up, but the guider cameras are optical which makes it nearly impossible to track any targets when the sky is bright. Moreover, we have to stay well away from the sun as the telescope would focus the sunlight with enough intensity to destroy itself. So, yeah, we only fly at night.

Airspeed is roughly mach 0.85.

parent goodcanadian 12 years ago

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