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The
Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer has two sets of instruments, which were developed
by the University of California at Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory
under the direction of Dr. Roger Malina and Steve Battel. The first set
consists of three scanning telescopes, clustered together and aligned to
point in the same direction. These telescopes have carried out the all-sky
survey of extreme ultraviolet sources. The second set is the Deep Survey/Spectrometer
telescope, which combines a telescope to image very distant sources and
a spectrometer to analyze radiation in detail by dispersing the incoming
light into individual wavelengths. The Deep Survey/Spectrometer telescope
is currently being used by guest investigators from around the world whose
scientific proposals are evaluated by peer review panels. The EUVE instruments
use detectors, grazing-incidence mirrors, diffraction gratings and spectral
filters specially designed and fabricated for this mission. The instrument
development program was one of the largest ever undertaken by a university.
The EUVE Science Payload (left, top half) mounted atop the Fairchild's
Multi-Mission Spacecraft (left, bottom half) launched aboard a Delta Rocket
from Cape Canaveral in 1992. On the right, various spacecraft and orbit
parameters for EUVE are listed. |
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