Sofia, the historic plane-borne telescope, lands for the last time
In the past eight years ago, a modified Boeing 747 made hundreds of flights on a single mission: to carry a 19-tonne, 2.5-meter telescope known as the Sofia, or Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy . Flying a telescope on a jumbo jet offered a way to scan the sky at wavelengths that could not be …
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