August 30, 1974, the Netherlands launched their first satellite, Astronomical Netherlands Satellite or ANS (I know. Kinda mundane). The program was jointly funded by the Netherlands Institute for
Space Research and NASA and ran for 20 months, ending in June 1976.
Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, ANS carried an X-ray detector and an ultraviolet telescope.
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