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.

	June 14 Astronomers See Distant Eruption as Black Hole Destroys Star
	March 1 NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere
	February 5 New Clues to TRAPPIST-1 Planet Compositions, Atmospheres
	January 11 NASA's Great Observatories Team Up to Find Magnified and Stretched Image of Distant Galaxy
	January 11 NASA Space Telescopes Provide a 3-D Journey Through the Orion Nebula
	November 29 Exoplanet Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water

	News Release Space Infrared Telescope Facility Lifts Off ssc2003-01
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	June 16 TDE observed in Arp299B
	June 15 A Tidal Disruption Event in Arp299B
	June 15 Black Hole vs. Star: A Tidal Disruption Event (Artist's Concept)
	February 5 TRAPPIST-1 Planet Data - Feb. 2018
	February 5 TRAPPIST-1 Planet Lineup - Feb. 2018 (unannotated)

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