Wide Field Infrared Explorer
(WIRE, Explorer 75)
(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.
Equipment failure during deployment partially ruined the
instruments but it did have a life in
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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