THE SPECTRUM-UV MISSION - AN INTERNATIONAL ULTRAVIOLET OBSERVATORY

The Spectrum-UV Mission is an ultraviolet space observatory, scheduled to be launched at the break of the century into a 7-day, highly excen tric orbit aboard a Spectrum Series platform. The Observatory is endow ed with a 170-cm aperture telescope and a focal plane instrument compl ement for spectroscopy and imaging in the 912 to 3600 Angstrom range. The results of an advanced feasibility study, being carried out n the four partecipating Countries (Germany, Italy, Russia and Ukraine) are presented.