21 Jun 2007 - WISE has passed its Mission Critical Design Review, held 18-21 June 2007 at UCLA.
WISE has been confirmed by NASA headquarters. The launch is scheduled for November 2009.
WISE has been selected by NASA as its next Medium-Class Explorer. With this decision the WISE mission will proceed into Phase B (Definition Phase). This phase will conclude with a preliminary design review in April 2005. Read the press release and visit our new public Web page.
WISE releases a simulated distribution of Brown Dwarfs in the Solar Neighborhood. These data and the viewer are available from our E/PO partner Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.
WISE has been selected for an extended Phase A study leading to a decision in 2004 on whether to proceed with the development of the mission. Read the NASA press release on the MidEx selection.
WISE changes its name from NGSS (Next Generation Sky Survey) to the Wide-field Survey Explorer.
NGSS is one of four MIDEX proposals selected for a Phase A study!
The NGSS proposal is resubmitted, a full day before the deadline.
The winners were announced today, and NGSS is not selected.
NGSS is one of five missions selected for a Phase A study, with an expected selection in late 1999 of two of these five missions for construction and launch, one in 2003 and another in 2004.