Washington, Aug 25: Nasa's new infrared space telescope, strapped to a Delta II rocket, soared into the sky over Florida early today on a mission to peek into the
corners of the universe and unveil objects that have eluded existing observatories, officials said.
"Liftoff of the Delta II rocket with SIRTF, seeking
hidden secrets of the evolution of our universe," a launch
official exclaimed as the rocket blasted off from the Kennedy
Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The space infrared telescope facility (SIRTF)
complements Nasa's existing stable of super-powered
telescopes orbiting the earth: the Hubble space telescope,
the Chandra X-ray observatory and the Compton gamma ray
observatory.
Bureau Report
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