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Tubingen Ultraviolet Echelle Spectrometer

(TUES)
(1990s UV spectrometer used on two Space Shuttle missions)

The Tubingen Ultraviolet Echelle Spectrometer (TUES) was an instrument developed and managed by the University of Tubingen with a spectral resolution of 10000. It was used on the ORFEUS Telescope, a 1-meter telescope used during two Space Shuttle science missions, ORFEUS-SPAS 1 in 1993 and ORFEUS-SPAS 2 in 1996.

(spectrometer,ultraviolet,space,NASA,past)
Further reading:
https://archive.stsci.edu/tues/about.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002yCat.6107....0G/abstract
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1996-065B
http://astro.uni-tuebingen.de/groups/orfeus/orf_spas.shtml
WaveLFreqPhoton
Energy		  
90nm3.4PHz14eVbeginTubingen Ultraviolet Echelle Spectrometer
140nm2.2PHz8.9eVendTubingen Ultraviolet Echelle Spectrometer

Referenced by page:
ultraviolet astronomy
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