1. List of participants

   Legacy Pages: vii - ix

2. Foreword

   • Laurent Vigroux
   • Pascal Gallais
   • Harley Thronson Jr.

   EditorialNotes Pages: xi - xii

3. Solar system observations and future missions

   • Emmanuel Lellouch

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 7

4. Extragalactic observations and future missions

   • A. Franceschini
   • G. De Zotti
   • P. Mazzei

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 16

5. Detection limits in the far infrared

   • G. H. Rieke
   • E. T. Young
   • T. N. Gautier

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 25

6. Background limited infrared and submillimeter instruments

   • J. -M. Lamarre
   • F. -X. Désert
   • T. Kirchner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 36

7. Simulations of the microwave sky and of its “observations”

   • F. R. Bouchet
   • R. Gispert
   • B. Maffei

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 43

8. Radiative and hybrid cooling of infrared space telescopes

   • Timothy G. Hawarden
   • Robert Crane
   • Thomas W. Bradshaw

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 56

9. The infrared space observatory (ISO)

   • M. F. Kessler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 65

10. The infrared space observatory

    • C. Singer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 72

11. Infrared telescope in space: IRTS

    • T. Matsumoto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 79

12. Infrared astronomy on the midcourse space experiment

    • Stephan D. Price

    OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 87

13. The Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE)

    • P. B. Hacking
    • M. W. Werner

    BriefCommunication Pages: 89 - 89

14. SOFIA: The next generation airborne observatory

    • E. F. Erickson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 100

15. Post: Polar stratospheric telescope

    • Pierre Y. Bely
    • Holland C. Ford
    • John Bally

    OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 112

16. Infrared Imaging Surveyor: IRIS

    • T. Matsumoto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 117

17. Optics of the far infra-red and submillimetre space telescope

    • Richard Hills

    OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 123

18. SIRTF — The moderate mission

    • M. W. Werner
    • L. L. Simmons

    OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 138

19. The Edison infrared space observatory

    • H. A. Thronson
    • T. G. Hawarden
    • G. Sholomitskii

    OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 144

20. The BOOMERANG experiment

    • A. Lange
    • P. De Bernardis
    • M. Griffin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 150

21. The Far Infrared Explorer (FIRE)

    • A. E. Lange
    • J. J. Bock
    • P. Mason

    OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 156

22. Olbers an interplanetary probe to study visible and infrared diffuse backgrounds

    • F. -X. Désert

    OriginalPaper Pages: 157 - 162

23. How to evidence Primitive Life on an exo-Planet? — The DARWIN project

    • A. Léger
    • J. -J. Puget
    • J. Schneider

    OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 169

24. The near infrared high resolution imaging camera program of Beijing Observatory

    • Jinghao Sun

    OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 173

25. The effect of realistic surface properties on low temperature space observatories

    • Rob Blake
    • Barrie W. Jones

    OriginalPaper Pages: 175 - 179

26. The management of stray radiation issues in space optical systems

    • Stephen M. Pompea

    OriginalPaper Pages: 181 - 193

27. Pulse tube refrigerators

    • A. Ravex
    • L. Duband
    • P. Rolland

    OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 203

28. The use of closed cycle coolers on space based observatories

    • T. W. Bradshaw
    • A. H. Orlowska

    OriginalPaper Pages: 205 - 213

29. Adiabatic demagnetisation refrigerators for future sub-millimetre space missions

    • I. D. Hepburn
    • I. Davenport
    • A. Smith

    OriginalPaper Pages: 215 - 223

30. Infrared detection, review of existing and future devices

    • F. Sibille

    OriginalPaper Pages: 225 - 228

31. A novel bolometer for infrared and millimeter-wave astrophysics

    • J. J. Bock
    • D. Chen
    • A. E. Lange

    OriginalPaper Pages: 229 - 235