2009-071A

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2009-071A is the COSPAR designation for NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), an Earth-orbiting space telescope that conducted an all-sky survey in infrared wavelengths.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Earth-orbiting observatory
artificial satellite
space telescope
catalogProduced AllWISE Source Catalog NERFINISHED
WISE All-Sky Source Catalog NERFINISHED
conducted all-sky infrared survey
coolant solid hydrogen
countryOfOperator United States of America
surface form: United States
cryogenDepletionDate 2010-10
dataRelease All-Sky Data Release NERFINISHED
AllWISE data release NERFINISHED
discovered brown dwarfs
near-Earth asteroids
ultra-luminous infrared galaxies
hasAlternateName WISE NERFINISHED
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer NERFINISHED
hasCOSPARId 2009-071A GENERATED
hasInstrument cryogenically cooled infrared telescope
inclination 97.5 degrees
launchDate 2009-12-14
2009-12-14T14:09:33Z
launchedBy NASA NERFINISHED
launchSite Space Launch Complex 2W NERFINISHED
Vandenberg Air Force Base NERFINISHED
launchVehicle Delta II 7320-10C NERFINISHED
manufacturer Space Dynamics Laboratory NERFINISHED
missionType astronomical survey
infrared astronomy
NEOWISEMissionType near-Earth object survey
operatedBy NASA
orbitalPeriod about 95 minutes
orbitRegime low Earth orbit
orbits Earth NERFINISHED
orbitType Sun-synchronous orbit
powerSource solar panels
primaryMirrorDiameter 40 centimetres
program NASA Explorer program NERFINISHED
reactivatedAs NEOWISE NERFINISHED
reactivationDate 2013-12
spaceAgency NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory NERFINISHED
surveyEnd 2010-02
surveyStart 2010-01
telescopeType infrared space telescope
usesDetector HgCdTe infrared arrays
Si:As infrared arrays
wavelengthCoverage 12 micrometres
22 micrometres
3.4 micrometres
4.6 micrometres

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