WSF 3

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WSF 3
Organization Unknown (United States)
Mission type Microgravity
Launch date November 23, 1996 (1996-11-23)
Launch vehicle STS-80
Carrier rocket Space Shuttle
Launch site Cape Canaveral, United States
COSPAR ID 1996-065C
Mass 2000.0 kg
Alternate Names Wake Shield Facility 3, 24662
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WSF 3 (Wake Field Facility 3) is an American microgravity module that was released from STS 80. The four-meter diameter, 2,000 kg steel saucer was to grow ultra-purity semiconductors on its rear side where the module's wake is an ultra-vacuum. Its orbital parameters were very close to those of STS 80. It was recaptured by the shuttle on the 26 November 1996.