Image: STS-7 PALABA-B1 deploy

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Description: Deploy of PALABA-B1 Satellite durig Shuttle Mission STS-7 The Indonesian Palapa B communications satellite is just about to clear the vertical stabilizer of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger to begin its way toward its Earth-orbital destination. Also visible in this 70mm exposure, photographed through the flight deck's aft windows, are the Shuttle pallet satellite, the experiment package for NASA's office of space and terrestrial applications (OSTA-2), the now vacated protective cradles for Palapa and Telesat Canada's Anik C2 satellites, some getaway special (GAS) canisters and the Canadian-built remote manipulator system (RMS) arm.
Title: STS-7 PALABA-B1 deploy
Credit: https://images.nasa.gov/details-S83-35764.html http://nix.larc.nasa.gov/info?id=S83-35764&orgid=8
Author: NASA
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