UltraViolet EXplorer (UVEX), led by Caltech and managed by UC Berkeley, is expected to launch in 2030
An orbiting space telescope approved by NASA last month and scheduled for launch in 2030 will conduct the first all-sky survey of ultraviolet (UV) sources in the cosmos, providing valuable information on how galaxies and stars evolve, both today and in the distant past.
The $300 million satellite mission, called UVEX(link is external) (UltraViolet EXplorer), will be managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory(link is external) (SSL) at the University of California, Berkeley. The mission’s principal investigator is Fiona Harrison(link is external), a UC Berkeley Ph.D. recipient who is a professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.