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Space Shuttle Project
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A crewmember aboard the Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis (STS-46) used a 70mm handheld camera to capture this medium closeup view of early operations with the Tethered Satellite System (TSS). TSS-1 is being deployed from its boom as it is perched above the cargo bay of the Earth-orbiting Shuttle circling the Earth at an altitude of 296 kilometers (184 miles), the TSS-1 will be well within the tenuous, electrically charged layer of the atmosphere known as the ionosphere.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineSpace Shuttle Project. NASA/MSFC, 1992-08-24. Public domain. ID: 9260784.
