ORFEUS-SPAS II
Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer-Shuttle PAllet Satellite II
Type
Instrument
Launch
Nov. 20, 1996
Partners
German Aerospace Center, NASA
Objective
Study celestial ultraviolet light sources
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