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STUDIO

(Stratospheric UV Demonstrator of an Imaging Observatory)
(balloon-borne 0.5-m ultraviolet telescope)

STUDIO (for Stratospheric UV Demonstrator of an Imaging Observatory) is a planned balloon-borne 0.5-meter ultraviolet (UV) reflector telescope. A short test flight from Sweden was planned for 2023 or 2024, with plans to observe from an altitude of 37 km in further flights. As of 1/2025, I find no reports of a completed test flight or current status, and suspect the test flight was delayed, on hold, or canceled.


(telescope,reflector,airborne,ultraviolet,construction)
Further reading:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020SPIE11445E..1YP/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022cosp...44.3352M/abstract
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.04651
https://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/306898/2/12182-132poster.pdf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.04580
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023AdSpR..71.2702P/abstract
WaveLFreqPhoton
Energy
  
180nm1.7PHz6.9eVbeginSTUDIO
330nm909THz3.8eVendSTUDIO

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