STS064-72-091 - STS-064 - Shuttle Plume Impingement Flight Experiment equipment over the payload bay

The original finding aid described this as:

Description: Photographic documentation of the Shuttle Plume Impingement Flight Experiment (SPIFEX) hardware stretched out over the Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay during STS-64. The SPIFEX was designed to study the characteristics and behavior of exhaust plumes from Discovery's Reaction Control System (RCS) thrusters.

Subject Terms: STS-64, SPACE SHUTTLES, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS, HARDWARE, PLUMES, IMPINGEMENT, JETS

Date Taken: 9/11/1994 0:00

Categories: Payloads

Interior_Exterior: Exterior

Ground_Orbit: On-orbit

Original: Film - 70MM CT

Preservation File Format: TIFF

geon: ATLANTIC OCEAN

feat: PAN-CLOUDS,PARTIAL FRAME

tilt: High Oblique

cldp: 25

nlat: 30.8

nlon: -41.8

azi: 263

alt: 141

elev: 20
STS-64