STS052-80-025 - STS-052 - STS-52 deployment of LAGEOS/IRIS spacecraft from OV-102's payload bay
- Image
- View Full Item
- Created Date
- 1981-04-12/2011-07-21
- Description
The original finding aid described this as: Description: During STS-52 deployment activities, the Italian Research Interim Stage (IRIS), a spinning solid fuel rocket, lifts the Laser Geodynamic Satellite II (LAGEOS II) out of its support cradle and above the thermal shield aboard Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102. The remote manipulator system (RMS) arm, with Material Exposure in Low Earth Orbit (MELEO), is positioned above the port side sill longeron. On the mission-peculiar equipment support structure (MPESS) carriers in the center foreground is the United States (U.S.) Microgravity Payload 1 (USMP-1) with Space Acceleration Measurement System (SAMS), MEPHISTO (its French abbreviation), Lambda Point Experiment (LPE) cryostat assembly (identified by the JPL insignia), and LPE vacuum maintenance assembly. Other payload bay (PLB) experiments visible in this image include: on the starboard wall (left), the Canadian Experiments 2 (CANEX-2) Space Vision System (SVS) Canadian Target Assembly (CTA) (foreground) and the Attitude Sensor Package (ASP); and on the port wall (right), the Tank Pressure Control Experiment/Thermal Phenomena (TPCE/TP) get away special (GAS) canister. Subject Terms: STS-52, COLUMBIA (ORBITER), ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES, GEODYNAMICS, IRIS SATELLITES, GET AWAY SPECIALS (STS), ITALIAN SPACE PROGRAM, PAYLOAD BAY, PAYLOAD DEPLOYMENT & RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, REMOTE MANIPULATOR SYSTEM, SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS Date Taken: 10/23/1992 Categories: Payloads Interior_Exterior: Exterior Ground_Orbit: On-orbit Original: Film - 70MM CT Preservation File Format: TIFF feat: NON-EARTHOBS
- Creator
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. 2/17/1973
- Contributing Institution
- National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures
- Collection
- Records of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission Photographs Taken During the Space Shuttle Program
STS-52 - Type
- image
- Format
- Magnetic DiskPhotographic PrintMagnetic MediaPhotographic Materials
- Standardized Rights Statement
- No Copyright - In the United States:The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
- Rights
- Unrestricted
- Chicago citation style
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. 2/17/1973. STS052-80-025 - STS-052 - STS-52 deployment of LAGEOS/IRIS spacecraft from OV-102's payload bay. 1981-04-12/2011-07-21. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://catalog.archives.gov/id/23243206. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. 2/17/1973, (1981-04-12/2011-07-21) STS052-80-025 - STS-052 - STS-52 deployment of LAGEOS/IRIS spacecraft from OV-102's payload bay. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://catalog.archives.gov/id/23243206
- MLA citation style
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. 2/17/1973. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://catalog.archives.gov/id/23243206>.