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Space Shuttle program: Atlantis is launched on STS-46 to deploy the European Retrievable Carrier and the Tethered Satellite System.
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Space Shuttle program
1972–2011 United States human spaceflight program
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official program name was Space…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Space Shuttle Atlantis
Space Shuttle orbiter (1985–2011)
Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Atlantis was manufactured by the Rockwell International company in Southern California and was delivered to the Kennedy…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
STS-46
1992 American crewed spaceflight to deploy EURECA and TSS-1
STS-46 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission using Atlantis and was launched on July 31, 1992, and landed on August 8, 1992.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
European Retrievable Carrier
ESA space science satellite
The European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) was an uncrewed 4.5-tonne satellite with 15 experiments. It was a European Space Agency (ESA) mission and the acronym was derived from Archimedes' bathtub revelation "Eureka!".Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Space tether
Load bearing cable connecting objects in space
Space tethers are long cables which can be used for propulsion, momentum exchange, stabilization and attitude control, or maintaining the relative positions of the components of a large dispersed satellite/spacecraft sensor system. Depending on the mission objectives and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
July 31
Day of the year
July 31 is the 212th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 153 days remain until the end of the year.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)