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Delta II Spitzer

Delta II launches Spitzer Space Telescope

8/25/03 ~ 1:35 a.m.

The first Boeing Delta II-Heavy rocket, with slightly larger Solid Rocket Boosters than a typical Delta II, launches
NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), later renamed the Spitzer Space Telescope, the fourth and
final of NASA's Great Observatories. Spitzer compliments the Hubble Space Telescope, the former Compton Gamma
Ray Observatory and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.

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