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Description: Deployment of the Anik C2 satellite during STS-7. The Canadian Telesat-F (Anik C2) communications satellite is about to clear the vertical stabilizer of the shuttle Challenger to begin its way to its earth-orbital destination. Also visible in this frame are the Shuttle pallet satellite, the experiment package for NASA's Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications (OSTA-2), some get-away special (GAS) canisters and the Canadian built remote manipulator system (RMS) arm.
Title: STS-7 Anik C2 deployment
Credit: NASA https://images.nasa.gov/details-s07-18-770.html http://nix.larc.nasa.gov/info?id=STS007-18-770&orgid=8 Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons. Transfer was stated to be made by User:TheDJ.
Author: NASA
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