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WISE Completes Test of Data System

News • November 17th, 2008

The WISE team completed an end-to-end test of the data system, sending data from the instrument through the spacecraft, transmitting to the geosynchronous Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS), back from TDRSS to the ground station in White Sands, New Mexico, and over the internet to the WISE Science Data Center at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center in Pasadena.