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The '''Infrared Processing and Analysis Center''' (IPAC) isprovides thescience [[NASA]]operations, sciencedata centermanagement, responsibledata forarchives theand datacommunity processing,support analysis,for astronomy and archivingplanetary ofscience NASA'smissions. IPAC has a historical emphasis on infrared-submillimeter astronomy and astrophysicsexoplanet science. IPAC has supported NASA, NSF and privately funded projects and missions. It is located on the campus of the [[California Institute of Technology]] in [[Pasadena, California]]<ref>{{Cite web|title = Infrared Processing and Analysis Center|url = http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/page/about|website = www.ipac.caltech.edu|accessdate = 2015-10-06}}</ref>.

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