Category:Long Duration Exposure Facility

**Long Duration Exposure Facility**
	free-flying experiment platform orbited by the Space Shuttle
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Instance of	research satellite;
Country of origin	United States of America;
Operator	National Aeronautics and Space Administration;
Start point	Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A;
Manufacturer	Langley Research Center;
Space launch vehicle	Space Shuttle (STS-41-C, Challenger);
UTC date of spacecraft launch	6 April 1984 (13:58:00);
Type of orbit	low Earth orbit;
Significant event	rocket launch (STS-41-C, Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A, 13:58:00, 1984); deployment (509 kilometre, STS-41-C, 1984); capture (Canadarm, 15:16, 352.6 kilometre, STS-32, 1990); recovery (STS-32, 20:49, 1990); landing (STS-32, Edwards Air Force Base, 09:35:37, 1990);
Mass	9,703.7 kg (launch weight); 4,082 kg (approximately, empty weight);
Diameter	4.27 m;
Length	9.14 m;
Duration	5.79 a;
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The Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) was launched into orbit in 1984 for a planned one-year mission and recovered in 1990.

Media in category "Long Duration Exposure Facility"

The following 32 files are in this category, out of 32 total.

1983 - Passive Grapple Tray.jpg 1,320 × 1,041; 191 KB
1990 s32 LDEF and Columbia over Namibia.jpg 1,840 × 1,807; 1.67 MB
1990 s32 LDEF stow.jpg 2,000 × 1,979; 1.46 MB
Artist concept of the Long Duration Exposure Facility.jpg 565 × 424; 55 KB
EL-1994-00018.jpeg 2,408 × 2,468; 698 KB
EL-1994-00019.jpeg 2,420 × 2,440; 856 KB
EL-1994-00023.jpeg 2,432 × 2,440; 717 KB
EL-1994-00049.jpeg 2,432 × 2,465; 717 KB
EL-1994-00101.jpeg 2,360 × 2,396; 999 KB
EL-1994-00106.jpeg 2,420 × 2,442; 785 KB
EL-1994-00107.jpeg 984 × 976; 150 KB
EL-1994-00110.jpeg 2,408 × 2,438; 890 KB
EL-1994-00126.jpeg 2,400 × 2,394; 970 KB
EL-1994-00133.jpeg 2,380 × 2,428; 861 KB
EL-1994-00681.jpeg 2,432 × 2,440; 747 KB
LDEF after deployment.jpeg 1,968 × 2,192; 506 KB
LDEF experiment integration model.jpg 725 × 1,073; 142 KB
LDEF over payload bay.jpg 2,000 × 1,500; 1.86 MB
LDEF Return to KSC - GPN-2000-000676.jpg 3,000 × 2,400; 7.77 MB
Long Duration Exposure Facility after deployment (cropped).jpg 2,278 × 1,710; 5.74 MB
Long Duration Exposure Facility after deployment.jpg 3,000 × 2,893; 11.67 MB
Long Duration Exposure Facility on STS-32.jpeg 2,392 × 2,352; 1.36 MB
Long Duration Exposure Facility prior to release on STS-41-C (41C-36-1618).jpg 4,166 × 4,166; 2.37 MB
Photo of the deployment of the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) from the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Challenger STS-41C mission.jpg 2,984 × 3,000; 10.68 MB
Space Shuttle Flight 11 (STS-41C) Post Flight Presentation (crop).webm 19 min 19 s, 640 × 480; 119.64 MB
Space Shuttle Flight 11 (STS-41C) Post Flight Presentation.webm 19 min 19 s, 640 × 480; 108.23 MB
STS-32 LDEF retrieval.jpg 4,095 × 4,011; 3.89 MB
STS-32 overall view of LDEF.jpeg 1,688 × 1,560; 500 KB
STS-32 side view of LDEF.jpeg 2,422 × 2,430; 835 KB
STS-41-C-LDEF-deploy-small.jpg 613 × 403; 77 KB
STS032-85-62 - LDEF retrieval.jpg 3,619 × 5,224; 23.61 MB
Third LDEF Post-Retrieval Symposium (Abstract).pdf 1,270 × 1,650, 166 pages; 6.34 MB

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