urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.spitzer 1.0 1.11.0.0 Product_Context 2020-02-06 1.0 Creation urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument_host:spacecraft.spitzer investigation_to_instrument_host urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:spitzer.irs investigation_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 Mission 2003-08-25 2020-01-30 The Spitzer Space Telescope, one of NASA's Great Observatories, was a space-based infrared observatory launched in August 2003 and managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech and the Spitzer Science Center. Spitzer operated with cryogenically- cooled instruments until the last of its helium boiled away in May 2009, then proceeded with the Warm Spitzer mission.