STS051-71-038 - STS-051 - ACTS/TOS being deployed

The original finding aid described this as:

Description: Photographic documentation showing the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS)/Transfer Orbit Stage (TOS) deploying from the payload bay of the orbiter Discovery on flight day one.

Subject Terms: COMMUNICATION SATELLITES, ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES, ACTS, DEPLOYMENT, PAYLOAD BAY, SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), STS-51

Date Taken: 9/12/1993

Categories: Payloads

Interior_Exterior: Exterior

Ground_Orbit: On-orbit

Original: Film - 70MM CT

Preservation File Format: TIFF

feat: NON-EARTHOBS

nlat: 1.8

nlon: -136.9

azi: 311

alt: 161

elev: 87
STS-51