This paper reports on the current status of the World Space Observatory WSO-UV, a space mission for UV astronomy, planned for launch at the beginning of next decade. It is based on a 1.7 m telescope, with focal plane instruments including high resolution spectrographs, long slit low resolution spectrographs and imaging cameras.
@article{arxiv.0801.2080,
title = {The World Space Observatory (WSO-UV) - Current status},
author = {Michela Uslenghi and Isabella Pagano and Cristian Pontoni and Salvatore Scuderi and Boris Shustov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.2080},
year = {2008}
}
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6 pages, 5 figures; Chinese Journal for Astronomy and Astrophysics (ChJAA), in press. Invited talk at the Frascati Workshop 2007 Vulcano (Italy), May 28 - June 2 "Multifrequency Behaviour Of High Energy Cosmic Sources"