A crane is used to lift SOFIA's newly coated primary mirror assembly from the floor of NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations…
Technicians position the transport cradle as a crane lowers SOFIA's primary mirror assembly into place prior to finish coating of…
NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory taxis past Hangar 1, the 1930s-era dirigible hangar at Moffett Field, during its first visit to…
Edwards Air Force Base, Calif - NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, has passed a significant mission milestone.
NASA's SOFIA observatory with a NASA F/A-18 trailing in chase soars over California City in the desert north of Edwards…
Faint specks of starlight are reflected by the 100-inch (2.5 meter) primary mirror on NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy…
The SOFIA telescope team collected baseline operational measurements during several nights of characterization testing in March 2008.
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy 747SP shows off its new blue-and-white livery at L-3 Communications' Integrated Systems in Waco,…
NASA's SOFIA observatory with a NASA F/A-18 trailing in chase soars over California City in the desert north of Edwards…
NASA's newly painted Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy 747SP is pushed back from L-3 Communications' Integrated Systems hangar in Waco,…
