From this page we provide links to the best of the FUSE-related photos we have on-line. No more hunting around! One-stop shopping! Plus you can preview the pictures before deciding to download larger versions. Just click on any of the `postage stamps' to see a caption, then click the link to see a larger image. Enjoy!
This (and the next) picture, from early April 1999, shows the FUSE satellite shortly after arrival
at NASA/KSC for final pre-launch processing. FUSE was shipped by special truck from NASA/Goddard
to Hangar AE at NASA/KSC, where it underwent final testing and verification (Photo: NASA)
FUSE at KSC, Hangar AE, #1
This picture from April 1999 shows the FUSE satellite shortly after arrival
at NASA/KSC for final pre-launch processing. (See also previous caption.) (Photo: NASA)
FUSE at KSC, Hangar AE, #2
This picture from June 6, 1999, shows the FUSE logo on the top of the Delta II first
stage assembly on pad 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida. (Photo: NASA)
Top of FUSE Rocket at pad 17A
This picture from June 6, 1999, shows the the Delta II second stage assembly being hoised
into position on pad 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida. (Photo: NASA)
FUSE Second Stage
This picture from June 14, 1999, shows FUSE with solar panels attached just prior to "bagging"
operations and shipment to the pad. (Photo: NASA)
FUSE Ready for Launch!
This picture from June 14, 1999, shows FUSE covered with protective "bagging"
and being placed in a shipping container for the trip to pad 17A. (Photo: NASA)
FUSE in the Can!
This picture from June 11, 1999, shows the FUSE satellite shortly before installation
on its Delta II rocket for launch. (Final close out.) (Photo: FUSE Mechanical team at CCAS.)
FUSE at KSC, Hangar AE, #3
This picture from June 12, 1999, is looking down one of the 4 FUSE telescopes (happens
to be called "Lithium Fluoride #1") during final close out activities at Cape Canaveral.
(Photo: FUSE Mechanical team at CCAS.)
Inside FUSE!
This picture from June 13, 1999, shows the final installation of one of the soalr arrays
just prior to final closeoutat Cape Canaveral.
(Photo: FUSE Mechanical team at CCAS.)
Solar Array Final Installation
This picture shows the FUSE ground station antennae at the University
of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, during intallation in March 1998. The antenna is our
primary means of talking to FUSE on orbit and receiveing its data back on earth.
In September 1998, hurricane Georges heavily damaged much of Puerto Rico and
damaged the antenna. Repairs have now been made. (Photo: UPRM)
FUSE Ground Station
Antenna at UPRM, #1
This picture shows the FUSE ground station antennae at the University
of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, after installation of protective Radome cover in
March 1999. This cover is designed to prevent any damage from weather,
such as occurred during hurricane Georges in September 1998. (Photo: UPRM)
FUSE Ground
Station (Radome) at UPRM, #2
This picture shows the FUSE Satellite Control Center (SCC) in the Bloomberg
Building on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus in Baltimore.
From here engineers and scientists can communicate with the satellite
(via the FUSE Ground Station) and receive data from completed observations.
May 1998. (Photo: JHU)
FUSE Satellite Control
Center at JHU Homewood Campus
This picture shows the FUSE Spacecraft in a clean room at Orbital Sciences Corp.,
Germantown, MD. The spacecraft provides power, attitude and pointing control, and
communications with the ground. The FUSE telescope and instrument attach on top
of the structure seen here. March 1998. (Photo: OSC)
FUSE Spacecraft
during final tests at OSC
This picture shows the FUSE Satellite arriving at NASA/GSFC for Integration and
Test activities. This and the next two picures are from August 1998, but they are
the best pictures we have of the whole satellite becuase the solar panels are
in position. The panels were removed shortly after this, and were only installed
again on the spacecraft shortly before launch. (Photo: NASA)
FUSE Satellite
at NASA/GSFC, #1
This picture shows the FUSE Satellite arriving at NASA/GSFC for Integration and
Test activities, August 1998. See previous caption for more details. (Photo: NASA)
FUSE Satellite
at NASA/GSFC, #2
Another view of the FUSE Satellite arriving at NASA/GSFC for Integration and
Test activities, August 1998. See previous captions for more details.
(Photo courtesy Orbital Sciences Corp.)
FUSE Satellite
at NASA/GSFC, #3
This picture shows the FUSE Spectrograph after final assembly at University of
Colorado, Boulder, February 1998. The spectrograph comprises the "top half" of the FUSE
instrument, and contains the gratings and detectors that allow FUSE to analyze
ultraviolet light. (The gratings are at the top, with red covers in place, and
the detectors are at bottom center.) (Photo courtesy Univ. of Colorado.)
FUSE Spectrograph
section after assembly at University of Colorado, Boulder.
This picture shows one of four FUSE mirror assemblies before installation
in the FUSE telescope at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.
April 1998.
The mirror assemblies were assembled and tested in the clean room facility at JHU/Bloomberg
on the Homewood campus.
The light from all four mirrors is aligned and fed into the spectrograph
for analysis. (Photo courtesy JHU/APL.)
FUSE Mirror
assembly at JHU/APL
This picture shows one of two FUSE electronic detector assemblies before installation
in the FUSE spectrograph. The detectors are the "retinas" of the FUSE instrument, sensing
ultraviolet light and turning it into digital data for downlink to earth.
The photo was taken in a lab at the University of California,
Berkeley, where the detectors were constructed and tested.
July 1998. (Photo courtesy UC Berkeley.)
FUSE Detector
at UC Berkeley