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A review is presented of the Orbiting Astronomical Observatories Program together with a detailed of the OAO spacecraft and the four astronomical instruments currently being developed for the first three observations.
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Rogerson, J.B. The Orbiting Astronomical Observatories. Space Sci Rev 2, 621–652 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00172442
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00172442