NASA's Long Duration Exposure Facility, or LDEF (pronounced "eldef"), was a cylindrical facility designed to provide long-term experimental data on the...

shuttle Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm to deploy the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) and Solar Max satellite. Hart was born on October 27...

Maximum Mission ("Solar Max") satellite, and deployed the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) experimental apparatus. STS-41-C was extended one day...

satellite (also known as Leasat 5), and to retrieve NASA's Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF), whose retrieval had been delayed for 41⁄2 years by...

relay satellite, the Palapa B communications satellites, the Long Duration Exposure Facility, and the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite. It was also used...

satellites into orbit by the Shuttle on STS-5, retrieve the Long Duration Exposure Facility and deploy the Chandra observatory, which was the heaviest...

research follows on from previous experiments such as the Long Duration Exposure Facility, a free flying experimental platform which flew from April 1984...

1981 to launch a communications satellite and retrieve the Long Duration Exposure Facility, then planned for a 1980 release on the first operational orbiter...

gradient oriented (Z axis parallel to local vertical). The Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) used this method for 3-axis stabilization; yaw about...

Navy (6 flights) STS-32 Columbia — January 1990 — Pilot — Long Duration Exposure Facility retrieval, deployment of SYNCOM IV-F5 STS-52 Columbia — October...

synchronous orbit and interplanetary space missions. The Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF), which was retrieved in 1990 after spending 68 months...

its use due to legal actions over ecotoxicological and health effects of exposure to PFOA. Dupont's spin-off Chemours today manufactures PTFE using an alternative...

participated as a surface analysis consultant on the NASA Long Duration Exposure Facility experiment. In 1991, she received her doctorate in polymer...

shuttle mission STS-41-C filmed the deployment of the LDEF (Long duration exposure facility) and the repair of the Solar Max satellite. This footage was...

Syncom satellite, and retrieved the 21,400-pound Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF). Mission duration was 261 hours, 1 minute, and 38 seconds. Following...

Syncom IV-F5 satellite, and retrieved the 9,724 kg (21,393 lb) Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) using the RMS. They also conducted a variety of mid-deck...

her second space flight, the STS-32 mission, also known as Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) retrieval mission. One of the largest payloads ever...

STS-41-C, a seven-day mission during which the crew deployed the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF). The crew also retrieved, repaired and redeployed Solar...

in Spacehab modules or Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules The Long Duration Exposure Facility The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite The Compton Gamma Ray...

from the Interplanetary Dust Experiment using data from the Long Duration Exposure Facility satellite. When he retired from Virginia in 1994, he became...

1984) mission during which the crew successfully deployed the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF), retrieved the ailing Solar Maximum satellite, repaired...

Syncom IV-F5 satellite, and retrieval of the 21,400-pound Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) using the Remote Manipulator System (RMS). The crew...

gets used together with Orbiter's Space Shuttle Atlantis. Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) Satellite Like the Hubble Space Telescope, it's one...

free flight tests. The following list includes the free-flight tests, durations listed count only the orbiter free-flight time. The list does not include...

reentering space debris List of space debris producing events Long Duration Exposure Facility Near-Earth object Orbital Debris Co-ordination Working Group...

Thagard (March 14, 1995, Soyuz TM-21) First American woman to make a long-duration spaceflight: Shannon Lucid (March to September 1996, Mir NASA-1) First...

have impacted man-made spacecraft, including the space probe Long Duration Exposure Facility, which collected interplanetary dust in low Earth orbit for...

IV-F5 communications satellite, and retrieved the 21,400-pound Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) using the Canadarm or SRMS. They also operated a variety...

During the 7-day mission the crew successfully deployed the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF); retrieved the ailing Solar Maximum Mission satellite...

Specialist 1 — Deployed the SYNCOM IV-F5 satellite; retrieved the Long Duration Exposure Facility STS-50 Columbia — June 1992 — Mission Specialist 1 — Spacelab:...