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Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer

(FUSE, Explorer 77)
(early 2000s space telescope for short-wavelength ultraviolet)

Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) was a NASA Medium-class Explorer Program (MIDEX) space-based telescope for far ultraviolet spectrography, launched in 1999 into Earth orbit and operated until 2007. Though it is not in use, I believe it is still in orbit. Among its goals were determination of the deuterium present in the universe through its history.

(telescope,spacecraft,NASA,ultraviolet,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Ultraviolet_Spectroscopic_Explorer
http://fuse.pha.jhu.edu/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000ApJ...538L...1M/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999ASPC..166..243S/abstract
https://archive.stsci.edu/fuse/
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1999-035A
WaveLFreqPhoton
Energy		  
90.5nm3.4PHz14eVbeginFar Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
119.5nm2.6PHz10eVendFar Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer

Referenced by pages:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
MAST
ultraviolet (UV)
ultraviolet astronomy
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