The International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) (see Fig. 1), launched on 26 January 1978, has been the first space-borne instrument welcoming visiting astronomers in real time, just like most ground-based observatories - with the difference that the telescope was not in an adjacent dome, but in a geosynchronous orbit over the Atlantic Ocean.
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Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy 4
October 31, 2003, Springer
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"The International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) (see Fig. 1), launched on 26 January 1978, has been the first space-borne instrument welcoming visiting astronomers in real time, just like most ground-based observatories - with the difference that the telescope was not in an adjacent dome, but in a geosynchronous orbit over the Atlantic Ocean."
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