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FAUST

(Far Ultraviolet Space Telescope)
(1990s ultraviolet space telescope used on two Space Shuttle missions)

FAUST (for Far Ultraviolet Space Telescope) was an ultraviolet telescope flown on the Space Shuttle on two science missions: Spacelab-1 in 1983 and ATLAS-1 in 1992, successfully imaging during the second mission. It was a wide-field imager which uncovered thousands of sources.

(telescope,space,NASA,ultraviolet,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-45#Mission_highlights
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993ApJ...415..875B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994A%26A...289..715D/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1995ApJS...96..461B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1995ApJ...450..137B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1995ApJ...447..630S/abstract
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/faust/faust.html
https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/spacelab
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experiment/display.action?id=ATLAS1+++-03
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19890020055
WaveLFreqPhoton
Energy		  
130nm2.4PHz9.6eVbeginFAUST
180nm1.7PHz6.9eVendFAUST
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FAUSTFAUST 3725 

Referenced by page:
ultraviolet astronomy
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