STS060-112-021 - STS-060 - WSF - Wake Shield Facility 1 (WSF 1) on the end of the RMS arm
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The original finding aid described this as:
Description: The Wake Shield Facility 1 (WSF 1) on the end of the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm carried by the Orbiter Discovery during STS-60. The WSF is a small free-flying satellite that has been designed to create an ultrapure vacuum in which investigators will attempt to produce innovative crystalline thin-film semiconductors for next-generation electronics as the saucer-shaped free flyer orbits the Earth.
Subject Terms: STS-60, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS, SATELLITES, VACUUM, HARDWARE, REMOTE MANIPULATOR SYSTEM
Date Taken: 2/8/1994
Categories: Payloads
Interior_Exterior: Exterior
Ground_Orbit: On-orbit
Original: Film - 70MM CT
Preservation File Format: TIFF
feat: NON-EARTHOBS
tilt: High Oblique
nlat: 56.6
nlon: -108.3
azi: 131
alt: 190
elev: 7
STS-60
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