STS060-76-100 - STS-060 - WSF - Wake Shield Facility 1 (WSF 1) overlooking the Earth limb
Summary
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Description: The Wake Shield Facility 1 (WSF 1), carried by the Orbiter Discovery during STS-60, overlooking the Earth limb. 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, EARTH LIMB
Date Taken: 2/6/1994
Categories: Payloads
Interior_Exterior: Exterior
Ground_Orbit: On-orbit
Original: Film - 70MM CT
Preservation File Format: TIFF
STS-60
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