Wide Field Infrared Explorer
(WIRE, Explorer 75, SMEX-5)
(partly-failed 1999 infrared satellite)
Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) was a 1999
NASA Small Explorer Program (SMEX) satellite
intended to perform an infrared survey of the entire
sky in the 21-27 micrometer and 9-15 micrometer bands.
Its instruments were partially ruined during deployment by
equipment failure.
However the satellite worked well enough that it was used for photometric
monitoring of bright stars for asteroseismology research.
The satellite reentered the atmosphere in 2011.
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is a more recent mission with similar goals.
(telescope,reflector,spacecraft,infrared,past,NASA)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Field_Infrared_Explorer
http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/wire/
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/wide-field-infrared-explorer-wire
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007CoAst.150..326B/abstract
https://appel.nasa.gov/2012/01/20/wire-learning-from-failure
https://appel.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/WIRE_case_study.pdf
https://llis.nasa.gov/llis_lib/pdf/1009462main1_0637-mr.pdf
Referenced by pages:
asteroseismology
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
IPAC
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