S35-71-013 - STS-035 - STS-35 ASTRO-1 telescopes documented in OV-102's payload bay

The original finding aid described this as:

Description: During the STS-35 mission, the Astronomy Laboratory 1 (ASTRO-1) payload, in its onorbit operating configuration, is documented in the payload bay (PLB) of Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, against the backdrop of an Earth limb. In the center of the frame, three ultraviolet telescopes are mounted and precisely coaligned on a common structure, called the cruciform, that is attached to the instrument pointing system (IPS). Visible on the cruciform are the star tracker (S TRK) (silver cone at left), the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) (behind S TRK), and the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) (at right). In the foreground and in front of the unpressurized spacelab pallet (U-pallet) is the igloo, a pressurized cylindrical container that houses the subsystems that provide such services as power, telemetry and commands to the instruments.

Subject Terms: STS-35, COLUMBIA (ORBITER), ASTRO MISSIONS (STS), INSTRUMENT ORIENTATION, PAYLOAD BAY, POSITIONING, SPACEBORNE ASTRONOMY, ULTRAVIOLET TELESCOPES, EARTH LIMB

Date Taken: 12/2/1990 0:00

Categories: Payloads

Interior_Exterior: Exterior

Ground_Orbit: On-orbit

Original: Film - 70MM CT

Preservation File Format: TIFF

feat: CARGO BAY-ASTRO-1

tilt: High Oblique

cldp: 95

nlat: -5.9

nlon: -101.7

azi: 112

alt: 189

elev: 34
STS-35