IUE transfer

Control of the venerable, long-serving International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) satellite, launched in 1978, has been transferred by NASA to the European Space Agency and the UK's Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council as part of a move in NASA's continuing cost-reduction efforts. Transbrazil stake

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