STS064-219-089 - STS-064 - Arm of the Shuttle Plume Impingement Flight Experiment (SPIFEX)

The original finding aid described this as:

Description: Photographic documentation of the arm used in the Shuttle Plume Impingement Flight Experiment (SPIFEX) on the Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-64. The SPIFEX was designed to study the characteristics and behavior of exhaust plumes from Discovery's Reaction Control System (RCS) jets. Includes views of the Earth in the background.

Subject Terms: STS-64 SPACE SHUTTLES DISCOVERY (ORBITER) SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM SPACE) PLUMES IMPINGEMENT ENGINES

Date Taken: 9/11/1994 0:00

Categories: Payloads

Interior_Exterior: Exterior

Ground_Orbit: On-orbit

Element: Shuttle Payload Bay

Original: Film - 70MM CT

Preservation File Format: TIFF

geon: BRAZIL

feat: RIVER, CLOUDS,REMOTE ARM

tilt: Low Oblique

cldp: 35

nlat: -2.5

nlon: -63.5

azi: 279

alt: 141

elev: 45
STS-64