Investigation Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.spitzer::1.0
NAME SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE
TYPE Mission
DESCRIPTION 
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.
START DATE 2003-08-25T12:00:00.000Z
STOP DATE 2020-01-30T12:00:00.000Z
REFERENCES 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.