Listen to a podcast about the WISE mission.
Learn more about space-based instruments and sensors capabilities in these exciting programs: Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, HiRISE, and CALIPSO.
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is a four-channel, super-cooled infrared telescope designed and built for NASA. It launched on December 14 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. See electronic press kit.
The Ball Commercial Platform is a family of spacecraft designed for cost-effective, remote sensing applications. CloudSat, WorldView-1, WorldView-2 and NPP are a few Ball Aerospace programs that have used the BCP design.