Abstract This paper reports on the current status of the World Space Observatory WSO-UV, a space mission for UV astronomy, planned for launch at the beginning of next decade. It is based on a 1.7 m telescope, with focal plane instruments including high resolution spectrographs, long slit low resolution spectrographs and imaging cameras.
Keywords space vehicles: instruments telescopes instrumentation: spectrographs instrumentation: high angular resolution ultraviolet: general
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