SPARTAN-201 satellite. Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy (SPARTAN-201) being deployed by a robotic arm of the space shuttle Colum

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SPARTAN-201 satellite. Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy (SPARTAN-201) being deployed by a robotic arm of the space shuttle Columbia. SPARTAN is a reusable free-flying module, deployed at the start of a shuttle mission and retrieved some days later. Photographed during shuttle mission STS-87 (19 November to 5 December 1997).

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Photo credit: © NASA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: arm, astronomical, astronomy, astrophysics, deployment, research, robot, satellite, satellites, shuttle, solar, spartan, spartan-201, sts-87, sts87