Jim Houck of Cornell.ĭuring its mission, Spitzer will obtain images and spectra by detecting the infrared energy, or heat, radiated by objects in space between wavelengths of 3 and 180 microns (1 micron is one-millionth of a meter). Spitzer’s infrared spectrograph was built by Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech. The Spitzer Space Telescope is a NASA mission managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It was launched by a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 25 August 2003 and is still currently in operation. Spitzer formerly called SIRTF (Space Infrared Telescope Facility) was the fourth and final element in NASA’s Great Observatories Program. The Spitzer Space Telescope is a space-based infrared telescope studying objects ranging from our Solar System to the distant reaches of the Universe.
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