2. Constellation Orion Visible Light

3. Constellation Orion Infrared Light

4. A quarter century ago, IRAS gave us this view of the center of the Milky Way in Infrared Light

5. With modern infrared detectors WISE will survey the entire sky with sensitivity and resolution comparable to the view seen here.

6. WISE Mission: Flight System A cold 40 cm telescope in Earth orbit Enabled by new megapixel infrared detector arrays By being in space, the 40 cm WISE telescope is as powerful as 6,000 8-meter telescopes on the ground!

7. WISE Mission: Flight System

9. WISE Mission: Payload – Constructed by Space Dynamics Laboratory

10. 40 cm Afocal Primary Mirror

11. WISE Telescope Assembly

12. Reimaging Optics

14. Scan Mirror

15. 1024 2 HgCdTe Detector in Focal Plane Mount Assembly

16. 1024 2 Si:As Detector in Focal Plane Mount Assembly

17. Aluminum Foam Cryostat Filling

18. WISE Cryostat with Aperture Cover

19. WISE Cryostat

20. WISE Aperture Shade

21. WISE Telescope assembled with the Cryostat

25. WISE Telescope calibration “blue tube” testing

26. R2-D2 Or WISE Telescope assembled with the Cryostat?

27. Fully Assembled WISE Payload

29. WISE Spacecraft Bus

30. WISE Spacecraft Bus Interior with electronics

31. WISE Spacecraft Bus with mass simulators for high gain antenna and star trackers

32. WISE High Gain Antenna

33. WISE Star Trackers

34. WISE Star Trackers installed on Spacecraft Bus

35. WISE Spacecraft Bus with Solar Panel and Star Trackers

36. Fully Assembled WISE Flight System

38. Fully assembled WISE Flight System in thermal vacuum testing chamber

39. Fully Assembled WISE Flight System and WISE Science Team

40. WISE Flight System undergoing acoustic vibration testing

41. Final WISE cryostat hydrogen filling at Vandenberg Air Force Base

42. Delta II rocket assembly at Vandenberg Air Force Base

44. The WISE launch vehicle

45. Transporting WISE to the launch pad

47. Lifting WISE into the Delta II fairing

48. WISE inside the Delta II Rocket Fairing

52. MST Rollback Photo-op 8 hours until launch

53. WISE Team and Family

54. WISE Science Team

57. Delta II Shadow in the Fog

58. Ready to Launch!

80. WISE Launch Seen from Los Angeles

81. WISE cover ejected successfully on Dec. 29 th, 2009

82. WISE is in a 525 km Sun-synchronous orbit

83. Survey operations Begin this month!

84. WISE will observe most Main Belt Asteroids larger than 3 km and discover hundreds of Near Earth Objects. IR data will provide accurate diameter estimations.

85. WISE will find Brown Dwarf stars in the Solar Neighborhood

86. Known stars within 25 light-years of the Sun

87. Stars within 25 light- years of the Sun after the WISE survey

88. WISE will image the entire Galactic Plane

89. WISE will image all nearby galaxies

91. 2MASS Surveyed Large Scale Structure out to 1.3 Billion Light-years (z ~ 0.1) WISE will survey out to 6.7 Billion Light-years (z ~ 0.5)

92. Visible Light - Axel Mellinger The Visible Sky as we known it

93. Infrared Light – 2MASS, COBE, and IRAS The Infrared Sky as we known it

94. WISE Principal Investigator – Ned Wright (in Infrared Light)