In this section you will find information on the WISE mission tailored to the professional astronomical community that will be making use of the mission data.

This section will grow as the mission’s timeline progresses toward launch in 2009. For now, please visit WISE PI, Prof. Ned Wright’s webpage about the mission.

You can also read the latest WISE mission Fact Sheet PDF (290 KB)

Read the most recent mission description in our SPIE proceedings paper:
Development of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission (887 KB) by Fengchuan Liu; Roc Cutri; George Greanias; Valerie Duval; Peter Eisenhardt; John Elwell; Ingolf Heinrichsen; Joan Howard; William Irace; Amanda Mainzer; Andrea Razzaghi; Donald Royer; Edward L. Wright.
Published in Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy III (Proceedings Volume). Edited by George Z. Angeli; Martin J. Cullum. Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 7017 (2008).