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As part of its Small Explorer Program, NASA recently selected the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) for flight, with a scheduled launch aboard an expendable Scout launch vehicle in 1993. During its baselined 2-year lifetime, SWAS’s primary objective will be to conduct a large-scale, high spectral resolution survey of galactic molecular clouds in low-lying transitions of water, molecular oxygen, atomic carbon, and isotopic carbon monoxide.
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Melnick, G.J. (1990). The Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite. In: Watt, G.D., Webster, A.S. (eds) Submillimetre Astronomy. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 158. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6850-0_36
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