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Typical orbit: 30285 km x 41296 km at 34 degrees inclination. Mass: 672 kg (1,481 lb). Associated Launch Vehicle: Delta 2000.

• 1978 January 26 - IUE 1 - Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Delta 2000. Mass: 672 kg (1,481 lb). Perigee: 30,285 km (18,818 mi). Apogee: 41,296 km (25,660 mi). Inclination: 34.30 deg. Period: 1,436.30 min.

  International Ultraviolet Explorer. Spacecraft engaged in practical applications and uses of space technology such as weather or communication (US Cat C). Positioned in geosynchronous orbit over the Atlantic Ocean at 30 deg W in-60 deg W in 1978-1996 As of 3 September 2001 located at 35.66 deg E drifting at 0.773 deg W per day. As of 2007 Mar 8 located at 14.14W drifting at 0.700W degrees per day.

• NASA Report, Science Operations of the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) Observatory, . Accessed at: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19970014284_1997021126.pdf. -right click to download pdfs!

• McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page, Harvard University, 1997-present. Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited and over 20,000 rocket launches Accessed at: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.

• Krebs, Gunter, Gunter's Space Page, University of Frankfurt, 1996. Accessed at: http://www.skyrocket.de/space.

• JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. Accessed at: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html.

• McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited since Sputnik. Accessed at: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html.

• NASA Report, International Ultraviolet Explorer Final Report, . Accessed at: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19970040874_1997088452.pdf. -right click to download pdfs!

• USAF Satellite Database, USAF Institute of Technology, 1995. Accessed at: ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/.