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The International Ultraviolet Explorer is one of the most successful astronomical satellites. It has been operating now since more than 10 years. IUE was launched on 26th January 1978. The satellite consists of a spacecraft of 312 kg with 122 kg of instruments. It is an elliptical orbit with an altitude varying between 26000 and 46000 km. The telescope, a 45 cm Cassegrain has a 16 arc.min field of view. There are two spectrographs: a short wavelength spectrograph, operating between 1150 and 1950 Å with a high solution mode of 0.15 Å resolution, and a low resolution mode of 6 Å resolution. The long wavelength spectrograph operates between 1900 Å and 3200 Å, with a high resolution mode of 0.25 Å, and a low resolution mode of 7 Å. A detailed description of IUE, its history and its instruments can be found in “Exploring the Universe with IUE” (Kondo,1987).
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Lamers, H.J.G.L.M. (1989). A Decade of Stellar Research with IUE. In: Klare, G. (eds) Reviews in Modern Astronomy 2. Reviews in Modern Astronomy, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75183-7_3
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