S35-28-015 - STS-035 - STS-35 ASTRO-1 in OV-102's payload bay silhouetted against RCS firing
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Description: STS-35 Astronomy Laboratory 1 (ASTRO-1) telescopes, in onorbit operating position in the payload bay (PLB), are silhouetted against an reaction control system (RCS) right thruster firing. Three ultraviolet telescopes are mounted and precisely co-aligned on a common structure, called the cruciform, that is attached to the instrument pointing system (IPS). Visible on the cruciform are the star tracker (S TRK) (silver cone at the top), the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) (behind S TRK), and the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT).
Subject Terms: STS-35, COLUMBIA (ORBITER), ASTRO MISSIONS (STS), FIRING (IGNITING), INSTRUMENT ORIENTATION, ORBIT MANEUVERING ENGINE (SPACE SHUTTLE), PAYLOADS, POSITIONING, SPACEBORNE ASTRONOMY, THRUST CONTROL, ULTRAVIOLET TELESCOPES
Categories: Spacecraft Orbital Operations
Interior_Exterior: Exterior
Ground_Orbit: On-orbit
Element: Shuttle Payload Bay
Original: Film - 35MM CN
Preservation File Format: TIFF
STS-35
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