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Summary
The original finding aid described this as:
Description: Photographic documentation showing the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS)/Transfer Orbit Stage (TOS) deployed. 053-056 shows it just deployed and backdropped by the earth. 057-065 shows ACTS/TOS growing smaller.
Subject Terms: COMMUNICATION SATELLITES, ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES, DEPLOYMENT, ACTS, STS-51, DISCOVERY (ORBITER)
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: -11.8
nlon: -112.8
azi: 297
alt: 162
elev: 58
STS-51
Nothing Found.
Tags
acts
tos
sts 51 discovery
nasa
communications technology satellite
communication satellites
sts 51
artificial satellites
transfer orbit stage
orbiter
earth from space
space program
Date
1993
Source
The U.S. National Archives
Link
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