New NASA Mission will Study Ultraviolet Sky, Stars, Stellar Explosions
The space telescope, called UVEX (UltraViolet EXplorer), is targeted to launch in 2030 as NASA's next Astrophysics Medium-Class Explorer mission.
- The space telescope, called UVEX (UltraViolet EXplorer), is targeted to launch in 2030 as NASA's next Astrophysics Medium-Class Explorer mission.
- This will enable it to capture the explosions that follow bursts of gravitational waves caused by merging neutron stars.
- The telescope also will carry an ultraviolet spectrograph to study stellar explosions and massive stars.
- The UVEX mission was selected for a two-year mission and will cost approximately $300 million, not including launch costs.