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KSC-03pd0535

NASA / KSC · 2003-02-24 · photograph (digital archive)

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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — The Boeing Delta II rocket, the launch vehicle for the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, stands upright in the launch tower on Launch Complex 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. SIRTF 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).

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Credit lineKSC-03pd0535. NASA/KSC, 2003-02-24. Public domain. ID: KSC-03pd0535.
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