STS064-73-066 - STS-064 - Shuttle Plume Impingement Flight Experiment (SPIFEX) boom extended

The original finding aid described this as:

Description: Photographic documentation of the Shuttle Plume Impingement Flight Experiment (SPIFEX) boom extended above the Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay during STS-64. The SPIFEX was designed to study the characteristics and behavior of exhaust plumes from Discovery's Reaction Control System (RCS) thrusters.

Subject Terms: STS-64, SPACE SHUTTLES, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS, HARDWARE, PLUMES, IMPINGEMENT, JETS, BOOM

Date Taken: 9/10/1994 0:00

Categories: Payloads

Interior_Exterior: Exterior

Ground_Orbit: On-orbit

Original: Film - 70MM CT

Preservation File Format: TIFF

geon: PACIFIC OCEAN

feat: PAN-CLOUDS, CARGO BAY

tilt: High Oblique

cldp: 90

nlat: -53.8

nlon: 145.2

azi: 69

alt: 140

elev: 9
STS-64