STS052-80-042 - STS-052 - STS-52 LAGEOS/IRIS spacecraft drifting over the Earth
Summary
The original finding aid described this as:
Description: The Laser Geodynamic Satellite II (LAGEOS II)/Italian Research Interim Stage (IRIS) (LAGEOS/IRIS) spacecraft drifts above the Earth after being deployed from the payload bay of Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102 during the STS-52 mission.
Subject Terms: STS-52, COLUMBIA (ORBITER), ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES, GEODYNAMICS, IRIS SATELLITES, ITALIAN SPACE PROGRAM, SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS, EARTH LIMB
Date Taken: 4/28/1999
Categories: Payloads
Interior_Exterior: Exterior
Ground_Orbit: On-orbit
Original: Film - 70MM CT
Preservation File Format: TIFF
geon: OCEAN
feat: CLOUDS, SATELLITE, HORIZ
tilt: High Oblique
cldp: 40
STS-52
Tags
Date
1999
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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