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STS044-24-016 - STS-044 - STS-44 DSP / IUS spacecraft drifting in space after deploy from OV-104

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Description: STS-44 Defense Support Program (DSP) / Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) spacecraft drifts in space after deployment from the payload bay (PLB) of Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104. A reflection from Atlantis' window appears in these images.

Subject Terms: STS-44, ATLANTIS (ORBITER), ANTIMISSILE DEFENSE, ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES, DEFENSE PROGRAM, INERTIAL UPPER STAGE

Date Taken: 11/24/1991

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Preservation File Format: TIFF

STS-44

Space Shuttle Atlantis was a space shuttle that was operated by NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program. It was the fourth operational shuttle built, and the last one to be built before the program was retired in 2011. Atlantis was named after the first research vessel operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and it made its first flight in October 1985. Over the course of its career, Atlantis completed 33 missions and spent a total of 307 days in space. Its last mission was STS-135, which was the final mission of the Space Shuttle program. Atlantis is now on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-104) was one of the four first operational orbiters in the Space Shuttle fleet of NASA, the space agency of the United States. (The other two are Discovery and Endeavour.) Atlantis was the fourth operational shuttle built. Atlantis is named after a two-masted sailing ship that operated from 1930 to 1966 for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Atlantis performed well in 25 years of service, flying 33 missions.

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dsp ius spacecraft space ov nasa sts 44 atlantis payload bay space shuttle atlantis atlantis orbiter vehicle high resolution ultra high resolution inertial upper stage atlantis sts 44 defense support program sts 44 dsp tiff sts 44 defense program sts 44 ius spacecraft antimissile defense orbiter vehicle orbiter artificial satellites space program
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1991
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Space Shuttle Atlantis

The Fourth Pperational Shuttle Built
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label_outline Explore Sts 44 Defense Support Program, Sts 44 Dsp, Antimissile Defense

The Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) booster is lowered toward a workstand in Kennedy Space Center's Vertical Processing Facility. The IUS will be mated with the Chandra X-ray Observatory and then undergo testing to validate the IUS/Chandra connections and check the orbiter avionics interfaces. Following that, an end-to-end test (ETE) will be conducted to verify the communications path to Chandra, commanding it as if it were in space. With the world's most powerful X-ray telescope, Chandra will allow scientists from around the world to see previously invisible black holes and high-temperature gas clouds, giving the observatory the potential to rewrite the books on the structure and evolution of our universe. Chandra is scheduled for launch July 22 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia, on mission STS-93 KSC-99pp0619

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S06-38-883 - STS-006 - Deployment of the TDRS by the STS-6 Challenger

STS051-71-057 - STS-051 - ACTS/TOS deployed

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STS051-92-060 - STS-051 - ORFEUS/SPAS

STS054-71-068 - STS-054 - During STS-54 IUS/TDRS is released from cradle/tilt table above OV-105's PLB

S44-72-019 - STS-044 - Closeup of the Link 2 High-Gain Antenna on the DSP/IUS spacecraft

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dsp ius spacecraft space ov nasa sts 44 atlantis payload bay space shuttle atlantis atlantis orbiter vehicle high resolution ultra high resolution inertial upper stage atlantis sts 44 defense support program sts 44 dsp tiff sts 44 defense program sts 44 ius spacecraft antimissile defense orbiter vehicle orbiter artificial satellites space program