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Delta II - SIRTF
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The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) is uncovered in the clean room of Building AE to permit workers access to the spacecraft to begin final preparations for its launch aboard a Delta II rocket. The observatory was shipped to Florida from the Lockheed Martin plant in Sunnyvale, Calif. 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 lineDelta II - SIRTF. NASA/KSC, 2003-03-06. Public domain. ID: KSC-03pd0604.
