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The Spitzer Space Telescope is the fourth and final element in NASA's family of Great Observatories and represents an important scientific and technical bridge to NASA's Astronomical Search for Origins program. The Observatory carries an 85-centimeter cryogenic telescope and three cryogenically cooled science instruments capable of performing imaging and spectroscopy in the 3.6 to 160 micron range. Spitzer was launched on a Delta 7920H from Cape Canaveral into an Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit in August 2003. While the Spitzer cryogenic lifetime requirement is 2.5 years of normal operations, the actual cyrogenic lifetime was 5 years, 6 months and 19 days. The cryogen was depleted on May 15, 2009 at 22:11 Universal Time. For more overview information, see the Observatory & Instruments Overview page or the main Spitzer public website.
Multi-year schedules (when Calls for Proposals go out and are due)
A general overview of the organization of Spitzer, both the SSC and JPL sides. Are you giving a talk on Spitzer? We've collected a set of useful slides on Spitzer. |
