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Satellite IUE

author: ESA/Novapix

reference: e-sou14-00001

Image Size 300 DPI: 18 * 22 cm

Artist view of the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE), an international space observatory jointly developed by ESA, NASA and the United Kingdom to observe the skies in the ultraviolet spectrum, not accessible from Earth due to the ozone layer that stops such radiations. Launched in January 1978 onto geosynchronous orbit, it was retired in September 1996, after 18.7 years of uninterrupted orbital operations.

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1978 - ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE - ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE - ASTRONOMY - IUE - MODEL - SPACE - ULTRAVIOLET - UV -