urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument_host:spacecraft.spitzer 1.0 1.11.0.0 Product_Context 2019-11-13 1.0 Creation urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.spitzer instrument_host_to_investigation urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:spitzer.irs instrument_host_to_instrument 10.1086/422992 The Spitzer Space Telescope Mission, Werner, M., Roellig, T., Low, F., Rieke, G., Rieke, M., Hoffmann, W., Young, E., Houck, J., Brandl, B., Fazio, G., Hora, J., Gehrz, R., Helou, G., Soifer, B., Stauffer, J., Keene, J., Eisenhardt, P., Gallagher, D., Gautier, T., Irace, W., Lawrence, C., Simmons, L., Van Cleve, J., Jura, M., Wright, E., 2004, ApJS, 154, 1. Paper describing the scientific, technical, and operational performance of Spitzer. Spitzer Space Telescope Spacecraft -79 The Spitzer Space Telescope was a 3-axis stabilized, pointing and scanning observatory in a solar, Earth-trailing orbit with three crogenically-cooled instruments operating from the near- to far-infrared. The telescope had an aperture of 85 cm, a diffraction limit of 5.5 microns, a field of view of ~5 arcmin x 5 arcmin for each band, a pointing stability of <0.1 arcsec, and a maximum tracking rate of 1.0 arcsec/sec. Its three instruments were the InfraRed Array Camera (IRAC), InfraRed Spectrograph (IRS), and Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS).