The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) is the last of the NASA Great Observatories, and a cornerstone of the NASA Origins Missions. The Observatory will include an 85 cm telescope in a unique orbit around the sun. The telescope will be launched at ambient temperature and cooled to 5.5K in space. The science instruments will use large detector arrays that will be background limited, and capable of a broad range of astrophysical investigations. The SIRTF architecture will accommodate up to 5 years of cryogenic space operations. This talk will describe both the scientific and technical capabilities of SIRTF.


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    Title :

    SIRTF, the Space Infrared Telescope Facility


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    Conference:

    16th Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference ; 1999 ; Venice, Italy


    Publication date :

    1999-01-01


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


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    No indication


    Language :

    English


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