NASA Photo ID: S92-41441           File Name: 10064819.jpg
  Film Type: 4x5                     Date Taken: 07/16/92
  Title: STS-46 Atlantis, OV-104, TSS-1 payload preflight processing at KSC's O&C Bldg
  Description:
  STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Tethered Satellite System 1 
  (TSS-1) is mated to the satellite support assembly (SSA) during preflight 
  processing at the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC's) Operations and Checkout 
  (O&C) Building. Watching intently at left is clean-suited STS-46 Mission 
  Specialist (MS) and Payload Commander (PLC) Jeffrey A. Hoffman. 
  Technicians  lower the TSS-1 satellite into the SSA which is mounted on an
  unpressurized  spacelab (SL) pallet (visible beneath the work platform). 
  On the SL pallet,  the tether reel assembly can be seen.  Already attached
  to the satellite and  being handled by technicians is the tether, a
  dielectric Kevlar cord roughly  the diameter of a pencil lead. During
  TSS-1's first flight, the approximately  1,000-pound tethered satellite
  will be deployed some 12 miles from the  orbiter to verify the system and
  for research purposes.  View provided by KSC  with alternate number
  KSC-92PC-318.         
  Subject terms:
  ATLANTIS (ORBITER)                      
  FLORIDA                                 
  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER                    
  PERSONNEL                               
  PREFLIGHT OPERATIONS                    
  SPACE SHUTTLE PAYLOADS                  
  SPACECRAFT MAINTENANCE                  
  STS-46                                  
  TETHERED SATELLITES                     
  

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