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Papers from the 2000 SPIE Conference in Germany A collectionof 46 papers on the SOFIA first-light instruments, the SOFIA telescope design, observatory systems and closely related topics. SOFIA Astronomy and Technology in the 21st Century Alfred Krabbe & Hans-Peter Roeser; 1999 A pdf file giving a comprehensive overview of SOFIA as well as SOFIA'S expected performance and contribution to astronomy. Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy E.E.Becklin; 1997 A summary of the SOFIA project. SOFIA:The future of Airborne Astronomy E.F. Erickson and J.A. Davidson; April 1995 A journal paper describing SOFIA, with comparisons to other observatories.

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