The German-built 100-inch telescope that is the heart of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy is nestled in the SOFIA…
Several NASA aircraft, including the SOFIA observatory in the foreground, the DC-8 airborne laboratory, an ER-2 high-altitude science aircraft and…
The rear fuselage of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy’s 747SP is illuminated during telescope testing operations in preparation for…
This close-up of the German-built telescope assembly seen through the open telescope cavity door in the side of NASA’s SOFIA…
ED09-0279-15 This close up of SOFIA’s German-built telescope assembly offers a view of both the primary and secondary mirrors, the…
NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, 747SP flies above California’s Mojave Desert during a functional check flight Dec.…
The high-tech German-built infrared telescope and its associated lower flexible telescope cavity door are rotated upward to their maximum 58-degree…
Thousands of NASA Ames employees and their families toured NASA’s SOFIA flying observatory during its first visit to NASA Ames…
NASA’s highly modified Boeing 747SP SOFIA observatory banks low over the Texas countryside as it heads for landing at Waco…
