STS-97

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STS-97
Organization NASA-Office of Space Flight (United States)
Mission type Engineering,Human Crew
Launch date December 1, 2000 (2000-12-01)
Launch vehicle Space Shuttle
Launch site Cape Canaveral, United States
COSPAR ID 2000-078A
Experiments Here
Alternate Names 26630
Additional Information Here
Data Collection Here
Payload Mass Up 17007.9 kg


STS 97 is an American shuttle spacecraft that was launched from Cape Canaveral at 03:06 UT. The main mission was to install a 72 m x 11.4 m, 65 kW double-wing solar panel on the UNITY module of the International Space Station (ISS). Including the support beams, radiators and batteries, the power generator has a mass of 15.75 tons. The previously docked Progress-M1 4 cargo spacecraft had to be temporarily evicted from the ISS before the installation. It required several spacewalks by the crew to extend the panel taut enough. The shuttle landed back in Cape Canaveral at 23:03 UT on 11 December.


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