The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) was a NASA-funded astronomy mission operating in the relatively unexplored extreme ultraviolet (70-760 Å) band. The science payload, which has been designed and built at the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, under the direction of Dr. Roger F. Malina, consists of three grazing incidence scanning telescopes and a 4th telescope with a 3 channel extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectrometer and deep survey imager. The science payload is attached to a Multi-Mission Modular spacecraft. The EUVE mission, which launched on June 7, 1992 on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, was the culmination of nearly thirty years of effort at the University of California at Berkeley to create the field of EUV Astronomy. EUVE opened up this last unexplored spectral window in astrophysics.
