urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.infrared_astronomical_satellite 2.0 1.14.0.0 Product_Context IRAS IRAS 2016-10-01 1.0 Extracted metadata from PDS3 catalog and modified to comply with PDS4 Information Model 2022-08-28 2.0 Custom update by K. Lopez (SBN) to improve information and metadata. urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument_host:spacecraft.iras::1.0 investigation_to_instrument_host Beichman, C.A., G. Neugebauer, H.J. Habing, P.E. Clegg, and T.J. Chester, 1988, Infrared Astronomical Satellite Catalog and Atlases, Volume 1, Explanatory Supplement, NASA RP-1190. Neugebauer, G., H.J. Habing, R. van Duinen, H.H. Aumann, B. Baud, C.A. Beichman, D.A. Beintema, N. Boggess, P.E. Clegg, T. de Jong, J.P. Emerson, T.N. Gautier, F.C. Gillett, S. Harris, M.G. Hauser, J.R. Houck, R.E. Jennings, F.J. Low, P.L. Marsden, G. Miley, F.M. Olnon, S.R. Pottasch, E. Raimond, M. Rowan-Robinson, B.T. Soifer, R.G. Walker, P.R. Wesselius, and E. Young, The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) Mission, Astrophysica Journal 278, L1-L6, 1984. Rowan-Robinson, M., P.E. Clegg, C.A. Beichman, G. Neugebauer, B.T. Soifer, H.H. Aumann, D.A. Beintema, N. Boggess, J.P. Emerson, T.N. Gautier, F.C. Gillett, M.G. Hauser, J.R. Houck, F.J. Low, and R.G. Walker, 1984, The IRAS minisurvey, AJ, 278, L7-L10. IRAS Mission Mission 1983-01-26 1983-11-23 IRAS was launched on January 26, 1983 from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California. It was a joint program of the United States, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The primary mission of IRAS was to conduct a sensitive and unbiased survey of the sky in four wavelength bands centered at 12, 25, 60, and 100 microns. It also made pointed observatons of selected astronomical and solar system objects.