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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) rests in a horizontal position in the clean room of Building AE today following its arrival from the Lockheed Martin plant in Sunnyvale, Calif. Final preparations for its launch aboard a Delta II rocket will now commence. 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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