Abstract
The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) is the fourth and final element in NASA’s family of orbiting “Great Observatories. SIRTF will offer order-of-magnitude improvements in capability over existing programs in the wavelength region between 3 and 180 microns. The combination of large-format detector arrays, with the intrinsic sensitivity of a cryogenic telescope, and the high sky visibility of a solar orbit, makes SIRTF an ideal instrument to carry out a number of very significant surveys to study the birth and evolution of galaxies in the early Universe. More than 75% of SIRTF’s observing time will be available to the worldwide scientific community, with the first call for proposals in July, 2000. SIRTF will be launched in December 2001, with an anticipated lifetime of 5 years.
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