SPIDER Update: We have Lift off

On January 1st 2015, Princeton University research team successfully launched SPIDER, the telescope, over Antarctica.  The telescope will spend around 20 days above the continent studying the early universe.  

""At this early stage things are looking as good as we could hope," said William Jones, an assistant professor of physics at Princeton University, in an email from Antarctica. Jones is the leader of the multi-institution effort to launch the balloon-borne telescope."

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Rob Ughetta graduated from Princeton University in 1989.