The Launch of Spitzer

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08.25.03

The Spitzer Space Telescope was launched on a Delta II rocket on August 25, 2003 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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The Spitzer Space Telescope is a NASA mission managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This website is maintained by the Spitzer Science Center, located on the campus of the California Institute of Technology and part of NASA's Infrared Processing and Analysis Center.

	May 16 Galaxy's Ring of Fire
	May 6 NASA's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri Dish
	April 3 A Confetti-Like Collection of Stars
	February 7 NASA Telescopes Discover Strobe-like Flashes
	January 8 NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf
	January 8 NASA, ESA Telescopes Find Evidence For Asteroid Belt Around Vega

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	May 6 An Astronomer's Fantasy: Planets in the Lab
	April 3 Taken Under the "Wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud
	March 19 Infant Stars Peek Out from Dusty Cradles

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