Last Look at SIRTF

April 2003:
SIRTF's solar panels are just barely still visible as the Observatory is enclosed in its launch faring atop a Delta-II rocket on pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. SIRTF is due to launch at the end of this month to its unique, earth-trailing orbit.

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