The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy SOFIA will become operational with the next two years. It will be the biggest astronomical airborne observatory ever build, comprising a 3m-class telescope onboard a Boeing 747SP. A suite of first-light instruments is under development striving for cutting edge technology to make SOFIA a milestone in infrared astronomy. Here we present an overview over the instrumentation and an update on the current status.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0207417,
title = {First Light SOFIA Instruments},
author = {Alfred Krabbe and Sean C. Casey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0207417},
year = {2007}
}
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Invited talk presented at SPIE conf. on Infrared Spaceborne remote Sensing X, Seattle, July 2002, 13 pages, to be published in SPIE vol. 4818