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A Smashing Success for Faulkes and Glen Spectra

The success of NASA's Deep Impact project was watched with anticipation by staff at Glen Spectra. Within 15 minutes of the collision images from the ground based Faulkes telescope, which uses optical filters supplied by Glen Spectra, were on the web for all to see. The Deep Impact mission to look inside comet Tempel 1 by smashing a copper probe into its surface was a spectacular success.