Spitzer Space Telescope

Spitzer Space Telescope — spacecraft, explore its interactive 3D model in Cosmoscope.

Explore Spitzer Space Telescope in a 3D Solar System. Follow its published mission trajectory and inspect its distance and spacecraft facts.

NASA’s infrared telescope peered through cosmic dust for 16 years, from newborn stars to distant galaxies. It revealed that TRAPPIST-1 has seven Earth-sized planets and found a vast, faint ring around Saturn.

Launched

25 Aug 2003

Status

Retired 2020 — drifting silently behind Earth

Explore Spitzer Space Telescope in 3D

Explore Spitzer Space Telescope along its published mission trajectory in the 3D Solar System. The model uses the available ephemeris interval; historical missions are not active spacecraft and extrapolations beyond an ephemeris interval are approximate.