Space telescope FUSES

See also: Fuses

|- | colspan=" 2" style=" text-align: center; background: #001000; " | |- | colspan=" 2" style=" make-size: smaller; text-align: center; " | FUSE with the NASA (with the Goddard Space Flight Center), in August 1998. |- ! align=" left" | Organization | NASA , SCUMS , CNES |- ! align=" left" | Field | ultra-violet |- ! align=" left" | Orbits | 760 km (period: 100mn) |- ! align=" left" | Slope | 25° |- ! align=" left" | Launching | June 24th 1999 |- ! align=" left" | Extraction | after 2005 |- ! align=" left" | Web page | http://fuse.pha.jhu.edu/ CAMWOOD ||2 cameras close and average IR |- style=" vertical-align: signal; " | PHOT/PHT ||spectrometer 5-210 µm |- style=" vertical-align: signal; " | SWS || Spectrograph 5-35 µm |- style=" vertical-align: signal; " | LWS || Spectrograph 35-205 µm --> |}

FUSES , for Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer , is a space Télescope of NASA, ASC and CNES, exploited by the university Johns Hopkins (Baltimore, Maryland, the United States). The satellite was launched the June 24th 1999. For each Star observed, the Télescope produces a spectrum in the field of the remote Ultraviolet (from 90 to 120 Nanomètre S). Its measurements make it possible to explore the ratio Deutérium/Hydrogène and thus to determine more precisely a data which makes it possible to evaluate the total mass of the universe.

The most astonishing part of this program is that it was entirely managed by a university.

Whereas the satellite was designed to function approximately 3 years, after 3 years and half (cycle 1), it could enter one second phase of operation (cycle 2 or cycles wide). In December 2004, a mechanical problem stopped the operations, but the team FUSES account well to give it in service in the current of the year 2005.

FUSE belongs to the program Origins of NASA.

External bonds

Page of FUSES at the university Johns Hopkins (in English)
French Page of FUSES at the Institute of Astrophysics of Paris

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