NASA Selects Boeing for Neptune Missions Study Grant
ST. LOUIS, June 01, 2004 -- The Single Aperture Far-Infrared Observatory (SAFIR) is a large cryogenic space telescope envisioned as a follow-on to the Spitzer Space Telescope (Spitzer) and the Herschel Space Observatory. SAFIR will provide unprecedented sensitivity in the important range between infrared wavelengths probed with the James Webb Space Telescope, and the microwave wavelengths observable with telescopes on the ground. SAFIR will explore the formation of the first stars and galaxies in the universe's distant past, and will pierce the veils of obscuring dust to reveal planetary system formation in our own Galaxy. Courtesy of Goddard Space Flight Center.
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