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    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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    Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE), launched August 1998, completed – Sun observing, Earth satellite Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE), launched March...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    post-doc at the University of Florida, ostensibly to work on the Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) mission. The unfortunate failure of WIRE's main telescope...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • on space missions including the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), and Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe...
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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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  • 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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  • (instrumentation) Wide-field InfraRed Camera, instrument on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope WIRE – Wide Field Infrared Explorer WISARD – (software)...
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    Infrared (IR; sometimes called infrared light) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than that of visible light but shorter than...
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    high acuity wide field K-band imager is a near-infrared imager with a relatively large field of view, about 8x8 arcminutes. ISAAC The infrared spectrometer...
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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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    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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    sea surface temperature measurements by microwave and visible spectrum-infrared instruments on polar orbiting and geostationary satellites. The workshops...
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