The Launch of Spitzer

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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.

	April 3 New Tool Finds Buried Treasure in Spitzer Archives
	March 27 Spitzer Sees the Galactic Dawn with 'Frontier Fields'
	March 20 NASA's Spitzer Telescope Brings 360-Degree View of Galaxy to Our Fingertips
	March 6 Mystery of Planet-forming Disks Explained by Magnetism
	February 26 Spitzer Stares into the Heart of New Supernova in M82
	February 7 Looking Back to the Cradle of Our Universe

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	March 27 Distant Galaxies Lensed by Cluster J0717
	March 20 GLIMPSE the Galaxy All the Way Around
	March 6 Loops of Gas and Dust Rise from Planetary Disks
	February 26 Seeing Through a Veil of Dust
	February 26 M82 Galaxy with Supernova

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