NASA Photo ID: S89-44167           File Name: 10063730.jpg
  Film Type: 4x5 BW                  Date Taken: 09/11/89
  Title: Drawing of STS-34 SSBUV orbiter interface and command and status monitoring
  Description:
  Line drawing titled SSBUV ORBITER INTERFACE FOR COMMAND AND STATUS 
  MONITORING shows how the shuttle solar backscatter ultraviolet (UV) (SSBUV) 
  will be operated by crewmembers on the aft flight deck using a autonomous 
  payload controller (APC).  SSBUV instrument will calibrate ozone measuring 
  space-based instruments on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
  Administration's (NOAA's) TIROS satellites NOAA-9 and NOAA-11.  During 
  STS-34, SSBUV instruments mounted in get away special (GAS) canisters in 
  Atlantis', Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104's, payload bay will use the Space 
  Shuttle's orbital flight path to assess instrument performance by directly 
  comparing data from identical instruments aboard the TIROS satellite, as 
  OV-104 and the satellite pass over the same Earth location within a
  one-hour  window.  SSBUV is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
  (GSFC).            
  Subject terms:
  ATLANTIS (ORBITER)                      
  CALIBRATING                             
  FLIGHT DECK                             
  GET AWAY SPECIALS (STS)                 
  SOLAR BACKSCATTER UV SPECTROMETER       
  SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS                  
  STS-34                                  
  VISUAL AIDS                             
  

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