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- Studies of the sun, the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere and astronomical objects using an international array of instruments in Atlantis' cargo bay will highlight Shuttle Mission STS-45. Atlantis will carry the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science-1 (ATLAS-1), 12 instruments from the United States, France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Japan, that will conduct 13 experiments to study the chemistry of the atmosphere, solar radiation, space plasma physics and ultraviolet astronomy. ATLAS-1 is planned to be the first of several ATLAS flights designed to cover an entire 11-year solar cycle, the regular period of energetic activity by the sun. Co- manifested with ATLAS-1 is the Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Instrument (SSBUV), which provides highly calibrated measurements of ozone to fine-tune measurements made by other NASA and NOAA satellites.
[Summary provided by NASA]
Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: STS-45 Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Space Stations/Manned Spacecraft Platform_Series_or_Entity: SPACE SHUTTLE Short_Name: STS-45 Long_Name: Space Transport System STS-45 End_Group Group: Synonymous_Platform_Names Short_Name: Atlantis End_Group Group: Orbit Orbit_Altitude: 160nm Orbit_Inclination: 57.0 degrees End_Group Creation_Date: 2008-01-29 Online_Resource: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-45/mission-sts-45.html Sample_Image: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/134440main_sts-45-crew-sm.jpg Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 1992-03-24 Launch_Site: Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center, USA Primary_Sponsor: NASA End_Group End_Group
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