urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.wise 1.0 1.10.0.0 Product_Context 2021-04-12 1.0 Initial export from OLAF urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument_host:spacecraft.wise investigation_to_instrument_host Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer Mission 2009-12-14 2012-02-01 WISE launched into the morning skies above Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California on Dec. 14, 2009. By early 2011, it had finished scanning the entire sky twice in infrared light, snapping pictures of three-quarters of a billion objects, including remote galaxies, stars and asteroids. Today, astronomers continue to mine a cosmic quarry of data provided by WISE.