List of Orbiting Telescopes – Ultraviolet

Name	Agency	Launched	Terminated	Orbit
Astro 2	NASA	2-Mar-93	18-Mar-93	Earth orbit (349–363 km)
Astron	IKI	23-Mar-83	Jun-89	Earth orbit (2,000–200,000 km)
Astronomical Netherlands Satellite (ANS)	SRON	30-Aug-74	Jun-76	Earth orbit (266–1176 km)
Astrosat	ISRO	0April 2009	—	Earth orbit (650 km)
Broad Band X-ray Telescope / Astro 1	NASA	2-Dec-90	11-Dec-90	Earth orbit (500 km)
Copernicus Observatory	NASA	21-Aug-72	1980	Earth orbit (713–724 km)
Cosmic Hot Interstellar Spectrometer (CHIPS)	NASA	13-Jan-03	—	Earth orbit (578–594 km)
Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE)	NASA	7-Jun-92	30-Jan-02	Earth orbit (515–527 km)
Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE)	NASA & CNES & CSA	24-Jun-99	12-Jul-07	Earth orbit (752–767 km)
Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)	NASA	28-Apr-03	—	Earth orbit (691–697 km)
Hubble Space Telescope	NASA	24-Apr-90	—	Earth orbit (586.47–610.44 km)
International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE)	ESA & NASA & SERC	26-Jan-78	30-Sep-96	Earth orbit (32,050–52,254 km)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Satellite 4 (Kaistsat 4)	KARI	27-Sep-03	—	Earth orbit (675–695 km)
OAO-2	NASA	7-Dec-68	Jan-73	Earth orbit (749–758 km)
Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer	NASA	20-Nov-04	—	Earth orbit (585–604 km)
Tel Aviv University Ultraviolet Explorer (TAUVEX)	Israeli Space Agency	2008	—	—

 

Completely and utterly taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_telescopes

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