Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WIRE, also Explorer 75 and SMEX-5) was a NASA satellite launched on 5 March 1999, on the Pegasus XL launch vehicle into...
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Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE, observatory code C51, Explorer 92 and MIDEX-6) was a NASA infrared astronomy space telescope in the Explorers...
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role in various other infrared space missions, including the Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) and the Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX). IPAC also expanded...
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Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (category Explorers Program)
Satellite (SWAS, also Explorer 74 and SMEX-3) is a NASA submillimetre astronomy satellite, and is the fourth spacecraft in the Small Explorer program (SMEX)...
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galaxy nearly 1500 times faster than Hubble. Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer – NASA satellite of the Explorer program James Webb Space Telescope – NASA/ESA/CSA...
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Explorer 1 was the first spacecraft of the United States to achieve orbit. Over 90 space missions have been launched since. Starting with Explorer 6...
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rugby league team nicknamed The Wire Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE), a spacecraft intended to produce an infrared survey of the entire sky Winged Reusable...
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Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE), launched August 1998, completed – Sun observing, Earth satellite Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE), launched March...
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is indeed oscillating. Photometric measurements from the NASA Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) satellite from 1999 and 2000 showed evidence of granulation...
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polar diameter. Satellite measurements made in 1999 with the Wide Field Infrared Explorer showed that the brightness of Altair fluctuates slightly, varying...
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Herschel Space Observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and the James Webb Space Telescope. Since putting telescopes...
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NEOWISE may refer to any comets below discovered by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer satellite between 2009 and 2024: 412P/WISE 245P/WISE 317P/WISE...
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loss of gamma-burst identifying satellite HETE (High Energy Transient Explorer). The Pegasus XL, introduced in 1994 has lengthened stages to increase...
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Telescope, 2003-2020 Herschel Space Observatory, 2009-2013 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), 2009-2024 Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (formerly...
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astrophysical instrumentation and infrared astronomy. She was the deputy project scientist for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and is the principal investigator...
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complement for HETE-1 consisted of four wide-field gamma-ray detectors, supplied by the CESR of Toulouse, France. A wide-field coded-aperture X-ray imager, supplied...
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discovered, co-discovered and re-discovered by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), a NASA infrared spaceborne observatory. As of July 2018, the...
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List of space telescopes (category Infrared telescopes)
Mapping the Infrared Sky" (PDF). NASA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-08. Retrieved 2008-03-03. "Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer". NASA....
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mid-infrared space telescope launched in 2003, it could not see as deep into the infrared when its coolant supply was depleted in 2009) Wide-field Infrared...
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NIRCam (redirect from Near-Infrared Camera)
infrared camera with ten mercury-cadmium-telluride (HgCdTe) detector arrays, and each array has an array of 2048×2048 pixels. The camera has a field of...
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HETE 2 (redirect from Explorer 79)
High Energy Transient Explorer 2 (HETE-2; also known as Explorer 79) was a NASA astronomical satellite with international participation (mainly Japan and...
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(instrumentation) Wide-field InfraRed Camera, instrument on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope WIRE – Wide Field Infrared Explorer WISARD – (software)...
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2009, the HUDF field was observed at longer wavelengths (1.0 to 1.6 μm) using the infrared channel of the recently fitted Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3)...
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can find a guide star. NIRISS is designed for performing: Near-infrared imaging Wide-field slitless spectroscopy Single object slitless spectroscopy Aperture...
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detectable in the archive of data that was collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope. In 2014, NASA announced that the WISE survey...
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missions, including the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), and the Two Micron...
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(2011-12-01). "The First Hundred Brown Dwarfs Discovered by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 197...
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The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was an 80/20 joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to construct and...
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WISE J1122+25 was discovered with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and spectroscopy with the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility confirmed it as a...
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by Schneider et al. with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and the Hubble Space Telescope, using WFC3 near-infrared grism spectroscopy. The team...
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