CU Space Instrument to be Launched by NASA

A $9 million instrument designed and built at the University of Colorado at Boulder for a new NASA satellite is now set for launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on June 23.

The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer mission, or FUSE, will study the far UV light emanating from distant stars, galaxies, quasars and interstellar gas and dust.

The FUSE spectrograph was assembled at CU-Boulder's Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy's (CASA) Astrophysics Research Laboratory in the CU Research Park, and involved 32 CASA students, faculty and engineers, including eight undergraduates.

CU-Boulder garnered $56 million from NASA and its affiliates in fiscal year 199798, setting a new record for the campus.

The FUSE mission is managed by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore as part of NASA's Explorer program.

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