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The Infrared Astronomical Satellite was the first space telescope to perform a survey of the entire night sky at infrared wavelengths. Launched on 25 January 1983, its mission lasted ten months. The t
Infrared Astronomical Satellite in space simulator at JPL, 1982
Launch of IRAS in 1983
False color image of comet IRAS–Araki–Alcock by IRAS
Infrared all-sky survey by IRAS
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer was a NASA infrared astronomy space telescope in the Explorers Program launched in December 2009. WISE discovered thousands of minor planets and numerous star clust
IRAS
…Space Telescope launched in 2003, and the Akari Space Telescope launched in 2006. A next generation of infrared space telescopes began when NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer launched on 14 December 2009 aboard a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Known as WISE, the telescope provided results hundreds of times…
WISE spacecraft
Scheme of the spacecraft
Scheme of the telescope
Scheme of the instruments