With the sliding door that covers the SOFIA's telescope behind him open, USRA's SOFIA science missions operations director Erick Young…
News media representatives are briefed on capabilities of the SOFIA's German-built infrared telescope embedded in the flying observatory's rear fuselage…
With a NASA F/A-18 flying safety chase nearby, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy – or SOFIA – flies a…
With a protective sun cover over its primary mirror, the high-tech German-built infrared telescope is nested in its framework inside…
The SOFIA airborne observatory's 2.5-meter infrared telescope peers out from its cavity in the SOFIA rear fuselage during nighttime line…
Over a blanket of snow covering California's southern Sierra Nevada mountains, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) conducts a…
Technicians lift SOFIA's primary mirror assembly above NASA's 747SP airborne astronomy aircraft just prior to installation in the telescope cavity.
SOFIA's primary mirror assembly is lifted above wing level prior to its reinstallation in the telescope cavity of NASA's 747…
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…
