Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 30/12/2018

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00:00:55 1 Facility
00:02:35 1.1 The telescope
00:06:56 1.2 The SOFIA aircraft
00:11:05 2 Project development
00:16:31 3 Scientific research and observations
00:18:04 4 Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors Program (AAA)
00:19:43 5 See also



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The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is an 80/20 joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to construct and maintain an airborne observatory. NASA awarded the contract for the development of the aircraft, operation of the observatory and management of the American part of the project to the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) in 1996. The DSI (Deutsches SOFIA Institut) manages the German parts of the project which are primarily science and telescope related. SOFIA's telescope saw first light on May 26, 2010. SOFIA is the successor to the Kuiper Airborne Observatory. It will observe celestial magnetic fields, star-forming regions, comets, nebulae, and the galactic centre.