STS-80 GAS canister installation on WSF-3

[KSC-96PC-1097]

  • Photo Number: KSC-96PC-1097

  • Release Date: 01-Jan-2000

  • Keywords: SHUTTLE,sts-80
    • Description: In NASA's Building AE on Cape Canaveral Air Station, preparation of the Wake Shield Facility-3 (WSF-3) continues as workers install Get Away Special canisters for ballast on the spacecraft. The WSF-3 represents the third flight since 1994 of the disk- shaped satellite primarily designed to generate an ultravacuum in space in which to grow advanced semiconductor high-purity thin films. The WSF-3 is one of the primary payloads scheduled to fly aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia on Mission STS-80, targeted to lift off around Nov. 8. On this mission, the WSF-3 will fly free of the orbiter for about three days. It will be deployed from the orbiter and retrieved using the Remote Manipulator System robotic arm.

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    Last Updated: Tuesday August 28 15:20:21 EDT 2001 (J.Dumoulin )

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