Spitzer Space Telescope Facts
Spitzer Space Telescope Facts
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| Interesting Spitzer Space Telescope Facts: |
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| The Spitzer Space Telescope is the size of a car. |
| The Spitzer Space Telescope is orbiting 26 million miles from Earth. |
| The Spitzer Space Telescope has given us great information about how planets form and where they come from. |
| Although the Spitzer Space Telescope was aimed at surviving at least 2.5 years, it has lasted more than 5 years. |
| The Spitzer Space Telescope ran out of liquid helium which caused the telescope to no longer make observations under the extreme temperatures of space. |
| Although the Spitzer Space Telescope ran out of liquid helium, its camera is still in working condition and continues to work today. |
| The Spitzer Space Telescope contains a reflecting telescope. |
| The Spitzer Space Telescope was named after Lyman Spitzer who was the first to suggest launching a large telescope into space. |
| The name of the Spitzer Space Telescope was decided by the general public. |
| Before launch, the Spitzer Space Telescope was named the Space Infrared Telescope Facility. |
| Lyman Spitzer died in 1997. |
| In 2007, the Spitzer Space Telescope was able to capture light images of planets outside of our Solar System for the first time. |
| The Spitzer Space Telescope is the only space observatory of the Great Observatories Program to not be launched by the Space Shuttle. |
| The Spitzer Space Telescope was actually launched by a Delta rocket. |
| The Spitzer Space Telescope weighs 2,094 lbs. |
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