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Space Infrared Telescope Facility

D. NORRIS, Mary Bothwell, J. A. Plamondon

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The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) is the fourth and last Great Observatory of the NASA Astrophysics Program. The challenges in providing this Observatory range from new cryogenic optical and sensing technology to operating in a fixed price research environment.

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The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) is the fourth and last Great Observatory of the NASA Astrophysics Program. The challenges in providing this Observatory range from new cryogenic optical and sensing technology to operating in a fixed price research environment.

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The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) is the fourth and last Great Observatory of the NASA Astrophysics Program. The challenges in providing this Observatory range from new cryogenic optical and sensing technology to operating in a fixed price research environment.

Key concepts: Observatory, Infrared telescope, Telescope, Space observatory, Physics, Spitzer Space Telescope, Infrared, Infrared astronomy

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