NASA Photo ID: S92-41443           File Name: 10064821.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. Technicians lower the TSS-1 satellite into the SSA which is 
  mounted on an unpressurized spacelab (SL) pallet. As the mating process 
  proceeds the tether, shown attached to satellite and handled by technicians 
  is pulled.  The tether is 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-312.           
  
  Subject terms:
  ATLANTIS (ORBITER)                      
  FLORIDA                                 
  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER                    
  PERSONNEL                               
  PREFLIGHT OPERATIONS                    
  SPACE SHUTTLE PAYLOADS                  
  SPACECRAFT MAINTENANCE                  
  STS-46                                  
  TETHERED SATELLITES                     
  

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