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 become more complete 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 WISE mission Fact Sheet PDF (193 KB)

Read the most recent mission description in our SPIE paper:
Preliminary design of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) PDF (888 KB) By Mainzer, Amanda K.; Eisenhardt, Peter; Wright, Edward L.; Liu, Feng-Chuan; Irace, William; Heinrichsen, Ingolf; Cutri, Roc; Duval, Valerie
Published in UV/Optical/IR Space Telescopes: Innovative Technologies and Concepts II. Edited by MacEwen, Howard A. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5899, pp. 262-273 (2005).