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PIA23648: Spitzer Project Manager Declares End of Mission
Spitzer Project Manager Joseph Hunt declares the spacecraft decommissioned and the Spitzer mission concluded.
 Mission:  Spitzer Space Telescope 
 Instrument:  Spitzer Space Telescope 
 Product Size:  8256 x 5504 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  NASA 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA23648.tif (122.6 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA23648.jpg (9.831 MB)  

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Spitzer Project Manager Joseph Hunt stands in Mission Control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on Jan. 30, 2020, declaring the spacecraft decommissioned and the Spitzer mission concluded.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, also in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

More information on Spitzer can be found here:

http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2020-01-30