NASA’s new SOFIA observatory shared the ramp with its predecessor, the now-retired Kuiper Airborne Observatory, during open house at NASA…
Technicians carefully maneuver a spreader bar into place before removing the telescope aperture assembly from NASA’s SOFIA infrared observatory Boeing…
With the large door over its 2.5-meter German-built telescope wide open, NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy 747SP aircraft soars…
Several NASA science aircraft, including (from bottom) the SOFIA observatory, the DC-8 airborne laboratory and an ER-2 high-altitude aircraft, along…
NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) touches down at Moffett Field, Calif., for its first visit to NASA Ames…
Engineers and technicians prepare SOFIA’s German-built primary mirror assembly for reinstallation into NASA’s 747SP airborne observatory.
With the sliding door covering its 2.5-meter infrared telescope open, NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) 747SP rolls down…
Cornell University’s Faint Object Infrared Camera for the SOFIA Telescope, or FORCAST, is shown attached to the SOFIA telescope.
A NASA F/A-18 mission support aircraft flies close beside NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy 747SP during a high-altitude test…
The high-tech German-built infrared telescope and its associated lower flexible telescope cavity door are rotated upward to their maximum 58-degree…
