LIVERMORE, California, Oct. 18 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release on Oct. 16, 2023: An instrument designed and built by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers departed Earth last week on a two-billion-mile, nearly six-year journey through space to explore a rare, largely metal asteroid. The Livermore high-purity germanium (HPGe) gamma-ray sensor is an essential part of a larger gamma-ray spectr  more