Finishing Touches

February 2003:
Lockheed Martin shares this photograph with us, taken in their assembly bay. It shows a technician working on the fully assembled SIRTF satellite. SIRTF will soon be shipped to Cape Canaveral, Florida, where it will be launched in April.

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