Mission Information
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| MISSION_NAME |
INFRARED ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE
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| MISSION_ALIAS |
IRAS
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| MISSION_START_DATE |
1983-01-26T12:00:00.000Z
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| MISSION_STOP_DATE |
1983-11-23T12:00:00.000Z
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| MISSION_DESCRIPTION |
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| MISSION_OBJECTIVES_SUMMARY |
Mission Objectives Overview =========================== 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.
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| REFERENCE_DESCRIPTION |
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.
YOUNG, E.T., G. NEUGEBAUER, E.L. Kopan, R.D. Benson, T.P. Conrow, W.L. Rice, and D.T. Gregorich, A User's Guide to IRAS Pointed Observation Products, IPAC Preprint No. PRE-008N, 1985.
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