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Spitzer Space Telescope

(SST, Spitzer, Space Infrared Telescope Facility, SIRTF)
(retired infrared space telescope)

The Spitzer Space Telescope (Spitzer, SST, or Space Infrared Telescope Facility, SIRTF) is a retired infrared-observatory satellite launched in 2003 and operated until January 2020. Most instruments were no longer usable once its liquid helium supply ran out in 2009, but the camera, IRAC still could image in some of its bands, and continued to be used as the Spitzer Warm Mission into 2020. Spitzer has a heliocentric orbit, trailing Earth's orbit by about 0.1 AU, and it remains in this orbit, inactive. It was named for scientist Lyman Spitzer. Its telescope has an aperture of 0.85 meters. Instruments:

Some surveys:


(telescope,infrared,spacecraft,NASA,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitzer_Space_Telescope
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/
https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/spitzer.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004ApJS..154....1W/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006A%26G....47f..11W/abstract
WaveLFreqPhoton
Energy
  
3.6μm83THz344meVbeginSpitzer Space Telescope
160μm1.9THz7.8meVendSpitzer Space Telescope
PrefixExample  
GLIMPSEGLIMPSE C01GLIMPSE survey
S3MCS3MC 00541-7319SMC survey
SpARCSSpARCS J003550-431224SpARCS survey
SSTSST24 J1434110+331733 
SWIRESWIRE J022550.67-042142SWIRE survey

Referenced by pages:
AEGIS
Boötes Field
far infrared (FIR)
GOALS
GOODS
IRAC Shallow Survey (ISS)
rare designator prefixes
Ritchey-Chrétien telescope (RCT)
SAGE
SPICA
SPIRITS
Spitzer Extended Deep Survey (SEDS)
Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (SERVS)
Spitzer HETDEX Exploratory Large Area Survey (SHELA)
transient astronomy
Ultimate Spitzer Phase Curve Survey (USPCS)

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