GENERAL INFO
RESEARCH TASKS
INSTRUMENTS
ORBIT AND LAUNCH
GROUND SEGMENT
COOPERATION
DOCUMENTS
MEETINGS
LINKS
The following countries have expressed interest in the WSO-UV project:
Argentina China France Germany
Israel India Italy Mexico
the Netherlands Poland Russia Spain
South Africa Ukraine United Kingdom the group of Scandinavian countries.
PARTICIPANTS SUPPORTED BY NATIONAL AGENCIES
RUSSIA
Participation
spacecraft
launch facilities
T-170M telescope
Funding Agency
Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos)
Science contractor
Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences (INASAN)
Industry contractor
Lavochkin Association
PI
Prof. Boris Shustov (bshustov@inasan.ru)
URL
http://wso.inasan.ru
SPAIN
ground segment, Field Camera Unit (ISSIS)
CDTI-Ministerio de Industria
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
under the responsability of CDTI
Prof. Ana I Gomez de Castro (aig@mat.ucm.es)
http://www.wso-uv.es/
GERMANY
VUVES and UVES spectrographs
Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
Institut fur Astronomie und Astrophysik Tubingen (IAAT)
Kayser-Threde
Prof. Klaus Werner (werner@astro.uni-tuebingen.de) Dr. Norbert Kappelmann ( kappelmann@astro.uni-tuebingen.de)
http://astro.uni-tuebingen.de/groups/wso_uv/
UKRAINE
coatings of the optical elements
Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (CrAO)
Prof. Nikolay Steshenko (suv@crao.crimea.ua)
www.inasan.ru