Image: Sts-46-patch

Description: STS-46 Mission Insignia Designed by the crewmembers assigned to the flight, the STS-46 crew patch depicts the Space Shuttle Atlantis in orbit around Earth, accompanied by major payloads: the European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) and the Tethered Satellite System (TSS- l). In the depiction, EURECA has been activated and released, its antennae and solar arrays deployed, and it is about to start its ten- month scientific mission. The Tethered Satellite is linked to the orbiter by a 20-krn. tether. The purple beam emanating from an electron generator in the payload bay spirals around Earth's magnetic field. Visible on Earth's surface are the United States of America and the thirteen-member countries of the European Space Agency (ESA), in particular, Italy -- partner with the USA in the TSS program. The American and Italian flags, as well as the ESA logo, further serve to illustrate the international character of STS-46.
Title: Sts-46-patch
Credit: NASA https://archive.org/details/s46-s-001 http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-46/mission-sts-46.html (direct link) http://mix.msfc.nasa.gov/abstracts.php?p=3506
Author: NASA
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License: Public domain
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