Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Sep 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000ap%26ss.273..187d&link_type=abstract
Astrophysics and Space Science, v. 273, Issue 1/4, p. 187-199 (2000).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Scientific paper
The Space InfraRed Telescope Facility (SIRTF) is the fourth and final element in NASA's family of orbiting `Great Observatories'. SIRTF consists of a 0.85-meter diameter telescope and three cryogenically-cooled science instruments capable of observing from the near- to the far-infrared, between 3 and 180 μm. Incorporating the latest in large-format infrared detector arrays, SIRTF offers orders-of-magnitude improvements in capability over existing facilities. Launch is scheduled for December 2001, with an anticipated lifetime of up to 5 years. SIRTF will observe targets ranging from small, icy bodies in the outer Solar System to the most luminous known objects in the distant reaches of the Universe. SIRTF represents an important scientific and technical bridge to NASA's new Origins program, and is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.
Bicay Michael D.
Deutsch Marie-Jose
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