Paula Cleggett-Haleim

Headquarters, Washington, D.C. March 1, 1990

(Phone: 202/453-1547)

Randee Exler
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
(Phone: 301/286-7277)

RELEASE: 90-34

ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES FOR NASA SPACECRAFT ARRIVE AT

GODDARD

The astronomical telescopes for NASA's Extreme Ultraviolet

Explorer spacecraft have been delivered to the Goddard Space
Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, Md., for integration into the
Goddard-designed payload module and for subsequent environmental
testing.

The scientific payload consists of four specially designed

telescopes that will make astronomical observations in the
previously unexplored portion of the electromagnetic spectrum
called the extreme ultraviolet, which is between the X-ray and
ultraviolet wavelengths.

The integration and testing of the spacecraft at Goddard,

which includes mating the payload module to NASA's Explorer
platform spacecraft bus, is expected to take 18 months. The
payload will be launched into low-Earth orbit aboard a Delta II
expendable launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,
Fla., in August 1991.

During its expected 2-year mission, the explorer spacecraft

will carry out an all-sky survey in the 100 to 1,000 angstrom
wavelength region and will subsequently include a program in
which guest investigators will be able to conduct spectroscoptic
observations of the brightest extreme ultraviolet celestial
sources.
 The spacecraft's science payload has been designed, built
and tested by the Space Astrophysics Group of the Space Sciences
Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. Professor
Stuart Bowyer is the principal investigator. Dr. Roger F.
Malina is the principal investigator for the construction of the
telescopes. The project manager at Berkeley is Steven J.
Battel.

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The science operations center for the telescopes will be

located at the University of California, Berkeley's Center for
Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics. The payload operations
control center will be located at Goddard where Donald L.
Margolies is the spacecraft's mission manager.

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