S35-73-023 - STS-035 - STS-35 ASTRO-1 telescopes documented in OV-102's payload bay

The original finding aid described this as:

Description: A closeup of the Astronomy Laboratory 1 (ASTRO-1) payload, in its onorbit operating configuration, documented in the payload bay (PLB) of Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, during the STS-35 mission. ASTRO-1 is composed of: three ultraviolet telescopes mounted and precisely coaligned on a common structure called the cruciform that is attached to the instrument pointing system (IPS); the star tracker (S TRK); the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT); and the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT).

Subject Terms: STS-35, COLUMBIA (ORBITER), ASTRO MISSIONS (STS), INSTRUMENT ORIENTATION, PAYLOAD BAY, POSITIONING, SPACEBORNE ASTRONOMY, ULTRAVIOLET TELESCOPES

Date Taken: 12/3/1990 0:00

Categories: Payloads

Interior_Exterior: Exterior

Ground_Orbit: On-orbit

Element: Shuttle Payload Bay

Original: Film - 70MM CT

Preservation File Format: TIFF

feat: ASTRO-1

nlat: 13.4

nlon: -80

azi: 109

alt: 191

elev: -13

STS-35

astro telescopes ov sts 35 columbia space shuttle columbia nasa payload bay columbia orbiter astro 1 payload sts 35 astro 1 telescopes sts 35 shuttle payload bay hopkins ultraviolet telescope ultraviolet telescopes sts 35 mission columbia astronomy laboratory spaceborne astronomy orbiter vehicle astro missions instrument orientation ultraviolet orbiter instrument star tracker s trk space program astronomy us national archives

1990

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