Category:WIRE

**Wide Field Infrared Explorer**
	former NASA space observatory
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Instance of	space telescope; former entity;
Part of	Explorers Program (75); Small Explorer program (5);
Operator	Goddard Space Flight Center; Bowie State University;
Manufacturer	Space Dynamics Laboratory;
Space launch vehicle	Pegasus;
UTC date of spacecraft launch	5 March 1999;
Type of orbit	Sun-synchronous orbit;
Significant event	rocket launch (Vandenberg Space Force Base Space Launch Complex 2, 02:56, 1999); service retirement (2000); atmospheric entry (2011);
Follows	Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (Explorers Program, 74); Transition Region And Coronal Explorer (Small Explorer program, 4);
Followed by	TERRIERS (Explorers Program, 76); Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (Small Explorer program, 6);
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