 |  | | | | Launch Update: Space Infrared Telescope Facility
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08.25.03
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| Mission: |
SIRTF |
| Launch Date: |
Monday, August 25, 2003 |
| Launch Time: |
1:35:39 a.m. EDT |
| Launch Vehicle: |
Boeing Delta II Heavy |
| Location: |
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida |
| Live Coverage: |
11:15 p.m. EDT |
The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) was successfully launched into orbit aboard a Boeing Delta II Heavy Launch Vehicle, early Monday morning. SIRTF will be the final mission in NASA's Great Observatories Program, also including the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO), and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO). SIRTF is also a part of NASA's Astronomical Search for Origins Program, designed to provide information which will help us understand our cosmic roots, and how galaxies, stars and planets develop and form.
To relive the launch coverage visit: http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/elvnew/sirtfindex.htm or http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/elvnew/sirtf/vlcc.htm
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/release/2003/76-03.htm
NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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