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://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/faust/faust.html
https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/spacelab
https://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/factsheet/Atlas-1_factsheet.html
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experiment/display.action?id=ATLAS1+++-03
| WaveL | Freq | Photon
Energy | | |
| 130nm | 2.4PHz | 9.6eV | begin | FAUST |
| 180nm | 1.7PHz | 6.9eV | end | FAUST |
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| Prefix | Example | | |
| FAUST | FAUST 3725 | | |
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Referenced by page:
ultraviolet astronomy
Index