IUE: ten years and still working. (International Ultraviolet Explorer astronomy satellite)

Science News | February 6, 1988 | Copyright

IUE: Ten years and still working

When the International Ultraviolet Explorer satellite (IUE) was launched on Jan. 26, 1978, it was planned to operate for three years, with an optimistic hope that it might hold on for five. It has just completed a decade on the job.

IUE is the only astronomy satellite to have been placed in a geosynchronous orbit, where it is positioned more than 22,000 miles above a fixed point on earth, notes Theodore Snow, director of the University of Colorado's Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy. This has enabled the satellite ...

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