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Line 5: [[File:Infrared Processing and Analysis Center.jpg\|thumb\|IPAC headquarters at Caltech]] IPAC was established in 1986 to provide support for the joint European-American orbiting infrared telescope, the [[Infrared Astronomical Satellite]], or IRAS. The IRAS mission performed an unbiased, sensitive all-sky survey at 12, 25, 60 and 100 µmμm during 1983. After the mission ended, IPAC started the [[Infrared Science Archive]] (IRSA) to make the data available to anyone who needed it. Later, NASA designated IPAC as the U.S. science support center for the European [[Infrared Space Observatory]] (ISO), which ceased operations in 1998. About that same time, IPAC was designated as the science center for the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) -- renamed the [[Spitzer Space Telescope]] after launch. IPAC also assumed the lead role in various other infrared space missions, including the [[Wide-field Infrared Explorer]] (WIRE) and the [[Midcourse Space Experiment]] (MSX). IPAC also expanded its support to include ground-based missions with the assumption of science support responsibilities for the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey ([[2MASS]]), a near-infrared survey of the entire sky conducted by twin observatories in the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

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