NASA’s SOFIA observatory with a NASA F/A-18 trailing in chase soars over California City in the desert north of Edwards…
With the sliding door that covers the SOFIA’s telescope behind him open, USRA’s SOFIA science missions operations director Erick Young…
NASA’s newly painted Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy 747SP is pushed back from L-3 Communications’ Integrated Systems hangar in Waco,…
Technicians position the transport cradle as a crane lowers SOFIA’s primary mirror assembly into place prior to finish coating of…
A crane is used to lift SOFIA’s newly coated primary mirror assembly from the floor of NASA’s Dryden Aircraft Operations…
SOFIA’s primary mirror assembly is lifted above wing level prior to its reinstallation in the telescope cavity of NASA’s 747…
Technicians lift SOFIA’s primary mirror assembly above NASA’s 747SP airborne astronomy aircraft just prior to installation in the telescope cavity.
Over a blanket of snow covering California’s southern Sierra Nevada mountains, NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) conducts a…
The SOFIA airborne observatory’s 2.5-meter infrared telescope peers out from its cavity in the SOFIA rear fuselage during nighttime line…
With a protective sun cover over its primary mirror, the high-tech German-built infrared telescope is nested in its framework inside…
