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The Spitzer Space Telescope was launched into an innovative Earth-trailing solar orbit. This means that it will not circle around the Earth. Instead, it will trail behind the Earth as the Earth orbits around the Sun. Spitzer will slowly drift away from the Earth at the rate of about 16,000,000 km per year.
