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BUSS

(Balloon-borne Ultraviolet Stellar Spectrograph, Balloon-borne Ultraviolet Stellar Spectrometer)
(1970s balloon-based ultraviolet astronomy mission)

BUSS (for Balloon-borne Ultraviolet Stellar Spectrograph) was a series of two balloon-based airborne ultraviolet spectrographs which were flown several times in the 1970s with a 40 cm telescope, to collect spectra of stars. The project was a collaboration including NASA and Netherlands astronomers.


(telescope,ultraviolet,airborne,past)
Further reading:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1979ApJ...230..526K/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1979ApJ...230..534D/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978nisa.symp...61K/abstract
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA067688.pdf
https://stratocat.com.ar/fichas-e/1974/PAL-19741009b.htm
http://ssl.stratocat.com.ar/fichas-e/1976/PAL-19760916.htm
https://stratocat.com.ar/fichas-e/1978/PAL-19780508.htm
https://www.osapublishing.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-17-4-604

Referenced by page:
ultraviolet astronomy

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