NASA Pulls Plug On One Of Its Great Observatories
Credit: NASA/JPL/R. Kennicutt, University of Arizona, SINGS team
It is a little ironic that NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, the final member and least expensive of four so-called Great Observatories that have operated across the electromagnetic spectrum to expand humanity’s view of the universe, is being decommissioned for lack of $14 million a year. Launched on...
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