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STS-52 PS MacLean, backup PS
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STS-52 PS MacLean, backup PS Tryggvason, and PI pose on JSC's CCT flight deck |
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STS-52 Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, Canadian Payload Specialist (PS) Steven G. MacLean (left) and backup Payload Specialist Bjarni V. Tryggvason (right) take a break from a camera training session in JSC's Crew Compartment Trainer (CCT). The two Canadian Space Agency (CSA) representatives pose on the CCT's aft flight deck with Canadian scientist David Zimick, the principal investigator (PI) for the materials experiment in low earth orbit (MELEO). MELEO is a component of the CANEX-2 experiment package, manifest to fly on the scheduled October 1992 STS-52 mission. The CCT is part of the shuttle Mockup and Integration Laboratory (MAIL) Bldg 9NE. |
| Date Taken |
1992-08-06 |
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STS-52 deployment of LAGEOS
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STS-52 deployment of LAGEOS / IRIS spacecraft from OV-102's payload bay (PLB) |
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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 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); |
| Date Taken |
1992-11-01 |
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STS-52 CANEX-2 Canadian Targ
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STS-52 CANEX-2 Canadian Target Assembly (CTA) held by RMS over OV-102's PLB |
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In operation during STS-52 above the payload bay (PLB) of Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, is the Canadian Experiment 2 (CANEX-2) Space Vision System (SVS) experiment. Target dots have been placed on the Canadian Target Assembly (CTA), a small spacecraft, in the grasp of the Canadian-built remote manipulator system (RMS) arm. With the shuttle's closed circuit television (CCTV) system, the payload specialist monitors the movement of the 4-foot by 7-foot by 1.5-foot deployed spacecraft, whose surface is covered with many sets of dots of know spacing. As the satellite moved via the RMS, the SVS computer measured the changing position of the dots and provided real-time television display of the location and orientation of the CTA. This type of information is expected to help an operator guide the RMS or the Mobile Servicing System (MSS) of the future when berthing or deploying satellites. Also visible on the RMS is another CANEX-2 payload, the Material Exposure in Low Earth Orbit (MELEO |
| Date Taken |
1992-11-01 |
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STS-52 deployment of LAGEOS
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STS-52 deployment of LAGEOS / IRIS spacecraft from OV-102's payload bay (PLB) |
| 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 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); |
| Date Taken |
1992-11-01 |
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STS-52 deployment of LAGEOS
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STS-52 deployment of LAGEOS / IRIS spacecraft from OV-102's payload bay (PLB) |
| 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 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); |
| Date Taken |
1992-11-01 |
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