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S46-73-019 - STS-046 - STS-46 Tethered Satellite System 1 (TSS-1) satellite deployment from OV-104 (

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. 2/17/1973

Title

S46-73-019 - STS-046 - STS-46 Tethered Satellite System 1 (TSS-1) satellite deployment from OV-104

Description

The original finding aid described this as: Description: The STS-46 Tethered Satellite System 1 (TSS-1) satellite is reeled out via its thin Kevlar tether into the blackness of space during deployment operations from the payload bay of Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104. At the bottom of the frame is the satellite upper boom including (top to bottom) the 12-m deployment boom, tip can, the docking ring, and the concentric ring damper. The Langmuir probe and the dipole-field antenna are stowed at either side of the TSS-1 satellite Subject Terms: STS-46, ATLANTIS (ORBITER), SPACE SHUTTLE PAYLOADS, TETHERED SATELLITES, DEPLOYMENT Date Taken: 8/4/1992 Categories: Payloads Interior_Exterior: Exterior Ground_Orbit: On-orbit Original: Film - 70MM CT Preservation File Format: TIFF feat: NON-EARTHOBS nlat: -17.2 nlon: -99.3 azi: 309 alt: 162 elev: 38

Date

4 August 1992

Collection

National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures
Parent institution	National Archives at College Park
Location	College Park , United States of America
Coordinates	39° 00′ 02.16″ N, 76° 57′ 34.7″ W
Website	www.archives.gov/college-park/photographs
Authority file	: Q59661040 NAID: 31

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This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by National Archives and Records Administration as part of a cooperation project. The donation was facilitated by the Digital Public Library of America, via its partner Digital Public Library of America.

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DPLA identifier: 088d5059485f13d0d914b8449e936bfd
National Archives Identifier: 22677022

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