STS051-71-052 - STS-051 - ACTS/TOS being deployed

The original finding aid described this as:

Description: Photographic documentation showing the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS)/Transfer Orbit Stage (TOS) deploying from the payload bay of the orbiter Discovery on flight day one.

Subject Terms: COMMUNICATION SATELLITES, ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES, ACTS, DEPLOYMENT, PAYLOAD BAY, SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), STS-51

Date Taken: 9/12/1993

Categories: Payloads

Interior_Exterior: Exterior

Ground_Orbit: On-orbit

Original: Film - 70MM CT

Preservation File Format: TIFF

feat: NON-EARTHOBS

nlat: 1.4

nlon: -136.2

azi: 308

alt: 161

elev: 86

STS-51

acts tos sts 51 discovery nasa spaceborne experiments payload bay communications technology satellite communication satellites transfer orbit stage orbiter discovery sts 51 artificial satellites orbiter payloads flight day one discovery space program

1993

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