SOFIA

Another Boeing 747 (a 747SP model purchased from United Airlines in 1996) is in use since 2007 as SOFIA.
C-141 Starlifter. In the early 1960s a single C-141A was procured by NASA for use as a heavy transport aircraft.

Another major infrared facility coming soon will be the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).

The SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy) airborne platform will observe in near- and mid-infrared. SOFIA will have a larger aperture than Spitzer, but at lower relative sensitivities in restricted duty cycles.

Future plans for IR astronomy include a KAO replacement, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a joint project of NASA and the German space agency, DLR, that consists of a Boeing 747-SP aircraft modified to accommodate a 8.

Terry Herter -- an astronomer at Cornell University who is also working on the instrument FORCAST to image star forming regions and other faint objects such as galaxies for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) and on the ...

Plans are being made by NASA for a new airborne observatory. SOFIA - The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy will be an optical/infrared/sub-millimeter telescope mounted in a Boeing 747 and is expected to be fully operational by the year ...

Another way of doing infrared astronomy is by the use of airborne observatories sutch as SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) and the Kuiper Airborne Observatory.

NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program intern Julianne Plumb analyzed data to help get the SOFIA project safely off the ground.
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