Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE)
A NASA mission to study the universe as it appears in short-wavelength ultraviolet
(UV) light. EUVE carried out an all-sky survey in the 7–76 nm (nanometers)
portion of the spectrum and a "deep survey" of a strip of the
sky along the ecliptic with extremely high
sensitivity. It performed follow-up spectroscopic
observations on bright extreme ultraviolet (EUV) point sources. Its results
have been used to study stellar evolution and local stellar populations,
energy transport in stellar atmospheres, and the ionization
and opacity of the interstellar
medium. At the end of the all-sky survey in January 1993, a Guest Observer
program was started. EUVE was controlled from the Center for EUV Astrophysics
at the University of California, Berkeley, and designed for on-orbit servicing
by the Shuttle. Its main instruments were three grazing-incidence
UV telescopes covering 8–90 nm and one EUV spectrometer.
| launch date |
Jun. 7, 1992 |
| launch vehicle |
Delta 6925 |
| launch site |
Cape Canaveral |
| orbit |
510 × 524 km × 28.4° |
| size |
4.5 × 3.0 m |
| mass |
3,275 kg |
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