STS-37 Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO) at KSC Payload Hazardous Servicing Fac

Similar

DSCOVR Satellite Deploy & Light Test

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. --In the Space Station Processing Facility, a crane carries the Harmony, the Italian-built U.S. Node 2 connecting module for the International Space Station, above the floor to another stand nearby for weighing. Harmony is part of the payload for space shuttle Discovery on mission STS-120. Launch is targeted for Oct. 23. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann KSC-07pd2449

Deployment of the Morelos-D communications satellite for Mexico

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., another segment of the canister is added to the stack around NASA's Kepler spacecraft. The "canning" provides protection during the spacecraft's transport to the pad. The liftoff of Kepler aboard a Delta II rocket is currently targeted for 10:48 p.m. EST March 5 from Pad 17-B. Kepler is designed to survey more than 100,000 stars in our galaxy to determine the number of sun-like stars that have Earth-size and larger planets, including those that lie in a star's "habitable zone," a region where liquid water, and perhaps life, could exist. If these Earth-size worlds do exist around stars like our sun, Kepler is expected to be the first to find them and the first to measure how common they are. Photo credit: NASA/Troy Cryder KSC-2009-1692

STS110-352-011 - STS-110 - View of the nadir side of the Soyuz, Node 1, Airlock and PMA1 taken during STS-110

STS088-365-004 - STS-088 - View of the free-flying ISS taken during the fly-around by STS-88

STS-37 Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO) at KSC Payload Hazardous Servicing Fac

description

Summary

S90-36709 (8 Feb 8, 1990) --- Workers at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility are removing the Gamma Ray Observatory from its storage container. GRO, one of four NASA Great Observatories, arrived at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) February 6 from the California plant of builder TRW. Weighing a massive 34,700 pounds, GRO will be the heaviest payload without an upper stage ever carried aboard the space shuttle. It is scheduled for deployment from the orbiter Atlantis during STS-37 in November 1990.

date_range

Date

08/02/1990

place

Location

Titusville, NASA Shuttle Landing Facility, Florida

Google Map of 28.6144578, -80.694108

create

Source

NASA

link

Link

https://images.nasa.gov/

copyright

Copyright info

Public Domain Dedication (CC0)