Bm. Shustov, The importance of intermediate size space missions to maintain access for astronomers to the space windows (Science with the World Space Observatory), ASTRO SP SC, 273(1-4), 2000, pp. 207-216
General, technological and scientific premises of new UV-optical observator
y (e.g. World Space Observatory) are briefly discussed. The 2-m class teles
cope with high-resolution spectrograph and imaging camera seems to be a pro
per combination for the multipurpose observatory.