FIRSST
(Far Infrared Spectroscopy Space Telescope)
(plan for a future far-infrared space telescope)
FIRSST (for Far Infrared Spectroscopy Space Telescope)
is a plan for a future NASA 1.8-m far-infrared space telescope.
It would be cooled to 4.5 K.
Planned instruments:
In October 2024, NASA selected a competing far-infrared
space-observatory plan, PRIMA,
from a number of proposed NASA Explorer missions,
for further study; this selection makes the FIRSST plan
unlikely to be carried out.
(telescope,spacecraft,NASA,far infrared,plan)
Further reading:
https://assets.science.nasa.gov/content/dam/science/astro/programs/cosmic-origins/events/2023/aas_jan2023/irstig/Cooray-FIRSST-IRTSIG-AAS2023.pdf
https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/programs/cosmic-origins/community/ir-stig-seminar-dec-04-2023/
https://assets.science.nasa.gov/content/dam/science/astro/programs/cosmic-origins/documents/irstig/newsletters/IRSIG_Newsletter_Aug2022.pdf
https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/665/vipa/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023AAS...24116017C/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023pcsf.conf..313V/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025AJ....170....8C/abstract
| WaveL | Freq | Photon
Energy | | |
| 35μm | 8.6THz | 35meV | begin | FIRSST |
| 600μm | 500GHz | 2.1meV | end | FIRSST |
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Referenced by page:
SOFIA
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