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BUSS

(Balloon-borne Ultraviolet Stellar Spectrograph, Balloon-borne Ultraviolet Stellar Spectrometer)
(1970s balloon-based ultraviolet astronomy mission)

BUSS (for Balloon-borne Ultraviolet Stellar Spectrograph aka Balloon-Borne Ultraviolet Stellar Spectrometer) was a series of two balloon-based airborne ultraviolet spectrographs which were flown several times in the 1970s attached to a 40 cm telescope, a collaboration including NASA and Netherlands astronomers.


(telescope,ultraviolet,airborne,past)
Further reading:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1979ApJ...230..526K/abstract
https://www.osapublishing.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-17-4-604

Referenced by page:
ultraviolet astronomy

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