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Satellite to Open Heavens For New Era of Astronomy
NASA plans the 20 million Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 to launch this weekend from Cape Kennedy and study ultraviolet light from thousands of stars above Earth's atmosphere. OAO 2 carries 11 telescopes with Smithsonian and University of Wisconsin projects. if active six months, over 1 000 stars may be studied in detail.
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Jim Strothman
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Space Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Orbiting
Astronomical Observatory 2
NASA
HEOS
OAO 2
OAO
James E. Kupperman Jr
QAO
Goddard Space Flight Center
Smithsonian
University of Wis
Consid
Wisconsin