NASA Pulls Plug On One Of Its Great Observatories

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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...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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