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The '''Infrared Processing and Analysis Center''' (IPAC) is the [[NASA]] science center responsible for the data processing, analysis, and archiving of NASA's infrared astronomy and astrophysics missions. It is located on the campus of the [[California Institute of Technology]] in [[Pasadena,_California|Pasadena, California]].

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 µm during 1983. After the mission ended, IPAC started the Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) to make the data available to anyone who needed it.