NASA’s SOFIA infrared observatory in flight for the first of a series of test flights to verify the flight performance…
NASA’s SOFIA infrared observatory lifts off on the first of a series of test flights to verify the flight performance…
Tiny two-inch string tufts blanket the telescope cavity door and related fairings to aid visual monitoring of airflow patterns during…
This in-flight photo was taken during the first flight of the NASA and German Aerospace Center SOFIA airborne infrared observatory…
The SOFIA 747SP airborne observatory takes off from Waco, Texas, on its way to NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in…
Composite infrared image of the central portion of galaxy M82, from SOFIA’s First Light flight, at wavelengths of 20 (blue),…
The lower flexible door (white) over the telescope cavity in the rear fuselage of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy…
NASA’s Boeing 747SP SOFIA airborne observatory soars over a bed of puffy clouds during its second checkout flight over the…
NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy is silhouetted against the sky as it soars on its second check flight near…
NASA’s now-retired Kuiper Airborne Observatory shared the limelight with its successor, the SOFIA observatory, during an open house at Ames…