SOFIA Prepares for 'Short Science' with FORCAST, FAST cameras

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy?s 747SP was rolled out of its hangar in Palmdale, Calif., on several nights in mid-October for ground-based telescope activities that concluded on Oct. 24. These tests of the individual subsystems and the entire integrated observatory system were in preparation for upcoming early astronomical science flights.

A Cornell University team, under the direction of principal investigator Terry Herter, developed the Faint Object Infrared Camera  [...]

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