NASA Photo ID: S92-33235           File Name: 10065104.jpg
  Film Type: 120mm                   Date Taken: 04/10/92
  Title: Engineer Calvin H. Seaman demonstrates STS-49 INTELSAT capture bar at JSC
  Description:
  Project Engineer Calvin H. Seaman (center) briefs news media
  representatives  on the grapple fixture (capture bar) expected to be
  instrumental in the  capture of the International Telecommunications
  Satellite Organization  (INTELSAT) VI satellite in JSC's Mockup and
  Integration Laboratory (MAIL)  Bldg 9.  Seaman is a JSC engineer who
  designed the capture bar.  After  Endeavour, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 105, is
  maneuvered into a tight proximity  operations configuration with the errant
  satellite, two STS-49 crewmembers  will attach the grapple device to the
  aft side of INTELSAT, as demonstrated  with this full-scale mockup.  The
  communications satellite will then be mated  with a perigee stage, which
  the crewmembers will carry with them on their May  launch, and released
  into space. Its motor will be fired many hours  afterward, sending it on
  its way to a higher, geosynchronous orbit. The  Errant Satellite Simulator
  is set up on the Air Bearing Floor for the  demonstration.  Photo taken by
  NASA JSC contract photographer Robert L.  Walck.       
  
  Subject terms:
  INTELSAT SATELLITES                     
  MOCK-UP                                 
  NEWS MEDIA                              
  PAYLOAD DEPLOYMENT & RETRIEVAL SYSTEM   
  PAYLOAD RETRIEVAL (STS)                 
  SIMULATION                              
  STS-49                                  
  TRAINING DEVICES                        
  

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