WISE

The "eyes of WISE," four infrared focal plane assemblies (FPAs), have completed testing at the suppliers DRS and Teledyne Instrument Systems, and have been delivered to the builder of the WISE Payload, Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory. These "megapixel" FPAs make it possible for WISE to achieve 500 to 500,000 times better sensitivity than previous all sky surveys at these wavelengths.