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- Space Transport System STS-2 Mission Objectives: Demonstrate safe re-launch and safe return of the orbiter and crew. Verify the combined performance of the entire shuttle vehicle - orbiter, solid rocket boosters and external tank. Payloads included the Orbital Flight Test Pallet consisting of the Measurement of Air Pollution from Satellite (MAPS) experiment, the Shuttle Multispectral Infrared Radiometer (SMIRR) experiment, the Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR-A) experiment, the Features Identification and Location Experiment (FILE) and the Ocean Color Experimetn (OCE). Also included was the 11,048 lb Development Flight Instrumentation (DFI) pallet, the Aerodynamic Coefficient Identification Package (ACIP), the Induced Environment Contamination Monitor (IECM) and the 5,395 lb Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications Pallet (OSTA-1).
[Summary provided by NASA]
Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: STS-2 Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Space Stations/Manned Spacecraft Platform_Series_or_Entity: SPACE SHUTTLE Short_Name: STS-2 Long_Name: Space Transport System STS-2 End_Group Group: Synonymous_Platform_Names Short_Name: columbia End_Group Group: Orbit Orbit_Altitude: 291 Orbit_Inclination: 38.03 End_Group Creation_Date: 2008-01-28 Online_Resource: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-2/mission-sts-2.html Sample_Image: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-2/sts-2-patch.jpg Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 1981-11-12 Primary_Sponsor: NASA End_Group End_Group
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