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STS-75 press kit
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This is NASA's press kit for Space Shuttle mission STS-75, dated February 1996 and later edited by Richard W. Orloff. It covers Columbia's planned 13-day flight carrying the Italian Tethered Satellite System reflight (TSS-1R) and the third United States Microgravity Payload. The kit sets out launch and landing plans, abort modes, the timeline, payload weights, crew duties, the tether's science objectives and investigators, and crew biographies. It does not mention any unidentified objects.
“Earth orbit”11 pages
- p. 2 …The Orbiter/satellite system is passing through the
Earth's magnetic field which, like an electric…
- p. 5 …on
orbiting platforms such as the international Space Station. Deploying a tether towards Earth could place…
- p. 9 …with the capability to allow one orbit of
the Earth before landing at the Kennedy Space…
- p. 15 …Also, a satellite could be moved up and down in orbit by releasing a tethered body…
- p. 16 …Orloff, 01/2001/Page 16
Earth's Charged-Particle Environment and the Tethered Satellite System
TSS…
- p. 17 …The Research on Orbital Plasma Electrodynamics experiment, by Dr. Nobie Stone of Marshall, will study
the…
- p. 19 …The orbital dynamics will result in the Tethered Satellite initially being deployed upward but at
an…
- p. 22 …The
effects of gravity on the orbiting spacecraft are roughly a million times less than experienced…
- p. 23 …The orbital environment will permit measurements to be made within a few
millionths of a degree…
- p. 24 …Materials for the Study of Interesting Phenomena of Solidification on Earth and in Orbit (MEPHISTO)
Principal…
- p. 26 …that may occur on orbit. When a fire starts on Earth,
flames spread due to the…
Edited by Richard W. Orloff, 01/2001/Page 28
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