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| rdfs:label | - Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope
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| rdfs:comment | - The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is a future infrared space observatory that was recommended in 2010 by United States National Research Council Decadal Survey committee as the top priority for the next decade of astronomy. On February 17, 2016, WFIRST was formally designated as a mission by NASA.
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| Name | - Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope
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| Instruments | - Coronagraph Instrument
- Wide Field Instrument
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| Image caption | - Rendered model of the WFIRST spacecraft
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| Title | - NASA/ Goddard – WFIRST: Uncovering the Mysteries of the Universe
- WFIRST-AFTA: Coronograph Technology Development
- WFIRST: The Best of Both Worlds
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| names list | - Joint Dark Energy Mission
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| ID | - -HXYg_BWGpk
- LbJpVHMV1m4
- zkTHuqiH_1Y
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| launch rocket | - Delta IV Heavy or Falcon Heavy
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| abstract | - The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is a future infrared space observatory that was recommended in 2010 by United States National Research Council Decadal Survey committee as the top priority for the next decade of astronomy. On February 17, 2016, WFIRST was formally designated as a mission by NASA. The design of WFIRST is based on one of the proposed designs for the Joint Dark Energy Mission between NASA and DOE. WFIRST adds some extra capabilities to the original JDEM proposal, including a search for extra-solar planets using gravitational microlensing. In its present incarnation (2015), a large fraction of its primary mission will be focused on probing the expansion history of the Universe and the growth of cosmic structure with multiple methods in overlapping redshift ranges, with the goal of precisely measuring the effects of dark energy, the consistency of General Relativity, and the curvature of spacetime.
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