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Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer

NASA's Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer was the first spacecraft dedicated entirely to extreme-ultraviolet astronomy. It combined three scanning telescopes with a deep-survey and spectrometer telescope to map the sky and conduct detailed observations between 7 and 76 nanometers.

Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
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EUVE
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Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
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Description
NASA's Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer was the first spacecraft dedicated entirely to extreme-ultraviolet astronomy. It combined three scanning telescopes with a deep-survey and spectrometer telescope to map the sky and conduct detailed observations between 7 and 76 nanometers.
End Date
2001-01-31
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Outcome
EUVE operated for more than eight years and completed the first sensitive all-sky extreme-ultraviolet survey. Its catalog contained 801 sources, it detected extragalactic objects in this wavelength range, and its guest-observer program produced a long-lived public archive of imaging and spectroscopy data.
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Start Date
1992-06-07
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July 18, 2026 at 15:06:11 UTC
Updated Time
August 23, 2026 at 01:55:54 UTC

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