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The Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), an approved and funded project of the European Space Agency (ESA), is an astronomical satellite, which will operate at wavelengths from 3 to 200 μm. Its cryogenically-cooled 60-cm telescope will be equipped with four complementary and versatile focal plane instruments, which will enable imaging and also photometric, spectroscopic and polarimetric observations. These instruments are being built by international consortia of scientific institutes and will be delivered to ESA for in-orbit operations. The expected launch date is 1993 and the in-orbit lifetime will be at least 18 months. In keeping with ISO’s rôle as an observatory, two-thirds of its observing time will be made available to the general astronomical community.
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Kessler, M.F. (1987). The Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) Project. In: Planetary and Proto-Planetary Nebulae: From IRAS to ISO. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 135. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3891-5_30
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