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Spartan 1 Gallery

photo of Spartan 1 in the shuttle bay

Space Shuttle Discovery (STS 51G)

Spartan 1

* Spartan 1 in the Discovery cargo bay

* Spartan 1 on the Discovery manipulator arm

* Spartan 1 orbiting the Earth

* The Spartan 1 carrier, supporting high-energy astrophysics, provides a structure with an optical bnench to accommodate a variety of rectangular array detectors. It is designed to point stellar objects.

* Diagram of the Spartan 1 carrier.

All images of the SPARTAN carrier series, launches, and recovery, are provided courtesy of NASA.
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