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Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope

(UIT)
(1990s ultraviolet space telescope used on two Space Shuttle missions)

The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) was a 38-cm ultraviolet telescope that was used during two Space Shuttle science missions, Astro-1 in 1990 and Astro-2 in 1995.

(telescope,space,NASA,ultraviolet,past)
Further reading:
https://archive.stsci.edu/uit/project/
https://archive.stsci.edu/hut/instruments/uit.html
https://rwoconne.github.io/rwoclass/UIT/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997PASP..109..584S/abstract
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120nm2.5PHz10eVbeginUltraviolet Imaging Telescope
320nm937THz3.9eVendUltraviolet Imaging Telescope
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Referenced by page:
ultraviolet astronomy
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