WISE

Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer
Called NeoWise once the satellite ran out of coolant

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General

Designation	36119 / 09071A
Launch date	14 Dec 2009
Country of origin	United States
Mission	Scientific: IR astronomy
Perigee/Apogee	534 km
Inclination	97.5°
Period	95.2 min
Launch vehicle	Delta 2 #347

Worth $300 million. 500 times more sensitive than Iras

WISE will scan the entire sky using an infrared telescope with sensitivity hundreds of times greater than ever before possible, picking up the glow of hundreds of millions of objects and producing millions of images. The mission will uncover objects never seen, including the coolest stars, the universe's most luminous galaxies and some of the darkest near-Earth asteroids and comets.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The mission was developed under NASA's Explorer Program managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center.

Transmit through the TDRS network. Finished it's primary mission on 17 July 2010.

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External resources

http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/
sat-index articles

Technical data

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Specifications

Prime contractor	Ball Aerospace
Platform	RS-300
Mass at launch	661 kg
Dry mass	645 kg
Dimension
Solar array
Stabilization	3-axis
DC power
Design lifetime	7 months

40-cm telescope with 4 infrared cameras

WISE will scan the entire sky in infrared light with a sensitivity hundreds of times greater than ever before, picking up the glow of hundreds of millions of objects and producing millions of images.
The mission will uncover objects never seen before, including the coolest stars, the universe's most luminous galaxies and some of the darkest near-Earth asteroids and comets.

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