Sachkov, M.Shustov, B.Savanov, I.Gómez De Castro, Ana Inés2023-06-192023-06-192014-01Sachkov, M., Shustov, B., Savanov, I. & Gómez De Castro, A. I. «WSO‐UV Project for High‐resolution Spectroscopy and Imaging». Astronomische Nachrichten, vol. 335, n.o 1, enero de 2014, pp. 46-50. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1002/asna.201312015.0004-633710.1002/asna.201312015https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/33510During the last three decades, astronomers have had practically continuous access to the 100-300 nm spectral range that is unreachable with ground-based instruments but where astro-physical processes can be efficiently studied with unprecedented capability since the resonance lines of the most abundant atoms and ions at temperatures between 3000 and 300000 K are in the UV. The successful International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) observatory, Russian ASTRON mission and successor instruments such as the COS and STIS spectrographs on-board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) demonstrate the major impact that observations in the UV wavelength range have had on modern astronomy. The access to space-based observatories is very limited. For the next decade, for the post-HST era, the World Space Observatory UltraViolet (WSO-UV) will be the only large telescope class mission for UV observations, both spectroscopic and imaging. By its potential, the WSO-UV mission is similar to the HST, though it exceeds the HST/STIS in sensitivity by a factor 5-10, but all the observing time will be available for UV astronomy. In this paper, we briefly outline the WSO-UV mission model, instrumentation description, science management plan as well as some of the key science issues that WSO-UV will address during its lifetime.engjournal articlehttps//doi.org/10.1002/asna.201312015http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.201312015/pdfrestricted access52Instrumentation: spectrographsSpace vehicles: instrumentsUltraviolet: generalAstronomía (Matemáticas)21 Astronomía y Astrofísica