Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4764. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Fourth of NASA's `Great Observatories', due for launch in 2001-2. Planned as a 1 metre, cryogenically cooled space telescope for infrared astronomy. Can be serviced by the Shuttle or at a manned space station. Instruments will provide high sensitivity and spatial resolution. Designed to study circumstellar dust clouds, brown dwarfs, infrared galaxies and quasars. Instruments include a wide field ...

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