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STS-31 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) drifts away from OV-103's RMS
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STS-31 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) drifts away from OV-103's RMS

Hubble Space Telescope (HST), with its solar array (SA) wings and high gain antennae (HGA) fully extended,is released from Discovery's, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103's, remote manipulator system (RMS) end effector and is set free into Earth orbit by the STS-31 crew. HST drifts away from the end effector over the Andes Mountains.Parts of Bolivia, Peru, Chile, and Argentina are visible. The view covers a huge area of the western half of South America stretching from 14 degrees south latitude to 23 degrees, about 1,000 kilometers.

Date
1990-04-25
Collection
JSC
Archive
NASA Image and Video Library
Type
photograph

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"STS-31 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) drifts away from OV-103's RMS" (1990-04-25). NASA/JSC. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/s31-76-039

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