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John Hutchings
Phone: 250-363-0018
Fax: 250-363-0045
Email: John.Hutchings@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Tim Hardy
Phone: 250-363-0051
Fax: 250-363-0045
Email: Tim.Hardy@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
FUSE - Far Ultraviolet Spectrographic Explorer
CSA is a partner with NASA and CNES in this space telescope, in orbit since 1999. NRC-HIA is funded to support science and operations and for technical support.
Project leader and Canadian project scientist: John Hutchings
Science and Operations: Alex Fullerton and Pierre Chayer (through UVic)
Technical team: Tim Hardy (included Chris Morbey and Rick Murowinski in past)
Technical Overview
The Far Ultraviolet Spectrographic Explorer (FUSE) is an orbiting telescope jointly run by NASA, CSA, and CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales). The Canadian contribution is the Fine Error Sensor (FES) camera system for tracking the telescope, and was built by ComDev with technical advice and design work from the NRC-HIA team. This team consists of John Hutchings (Canadian project scientist), Rick Murowsinki and Tim Hardy (detector electronics, software and data handling), Chris Morbey (optical design), and others as needed. The satellite was launched in 1999 and has been operating since.
The NRC-HIA team continues to work with CSA in supporting operations and software upgrades, and John Hutchings supervises two CSA-funded operations scientists at Johns Hopkins University. FUSE serves the research needs of scientists throughout Canada. NRC-HIA organized and hosted the FUSE 5-year science symposium held in July 2004, which attracted 160 scientists from many countries.
The Centre of the Universe houses a model of the FUSE telescope and exhibits the spare FES camera.
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Engineering model used for software testing in the NRC-HIA labs. The thumbnails on the left link to larger versions. |
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List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
CNES - Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales
CSA - Canadian Space Agency
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
UVic - University of Victoria
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FUSE - Far Ultraviolet Spectrographic Explorer
FUSE - Far Ultraviolet Spectrographic Explorer
FUSE - Far Ultraviolet Spectrographic Explorer
