NASA gives go ahead for new telescope

NASA administrator Daniel Goldin has authorised the start of work on the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), which is to be launched aboard a Delta II booster in December 2001 as the fourth in a series of Great Observatories.

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