I present an up-to-date description of the TAUVEX UV imager, constructed to
operate on the Spectrum X-Gamma international space observatory. The projected
performance and the expected scientific yield of TAUVEX are described.Comment: 4 pages, plain LaTex, invited contribution for the 7-th Asian-Pacific
  Regional Meeting of the IAU (August 19-23 1996 in Pusan, Korea), to be
  published in the Journal of the Korean Astronomical Societ