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Clementine, 1994. Ultraviolet/Visible camera (UV/Vis) Near-Infrared camera (NIR) High-Resolution Camera (HIRES) Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, 2009. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite. One visible, two near infrared, and two mid-infrared cameras.
Sally Ride EarthKAM ( Earth K nowledge A cquired by M iddle school students) is a NASA educational outreach program started in 1996. The program was initiated by JoBea Way Holt, an Earth scientist from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and was initially named KidSat. It allowed students to direct a digital camera aboard a series of space ...
Launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on 12 April 1981 at Pad 39A for mission STS-1. The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable ...
Sunrise in Québec as seen by HDEV camera. High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) cameras were a payload package delivered to the International Space Station on the SpaceX CRS-3 Mission, launched on April 18, 2014. [1] [2] The High-Definition Earth Viewing camera suite was carried aboard the Dragon spacecraft and is configured on a platform on ...
Sony α7S II, which captured the first commercial 4K video footage in space in 2016. Nikon Z 9 (since 2024) Multi-function devices with a camera feature: iPhone 4; HTC Nexus One; iPad 2; Installed hardware/experiments (no longer active) High Definition Earth-Viewing System (HDEV) 4:3 standard definition CCTV cameras
The Space Shuttle external tank (ET) was the largest [clarification needed] part of the rocket [citation needed] and carried the propellant for the Space Shuttle Main Engines, and connected the orbiter vehicle with the solid rocket boosters. The ET was 47 m (153.8 ft) tall and 8.4 m (27.6 ft) in diameter, and contained separate tanks for liquid ...
STS-59 launches from Kennedy Space Center, 9 April 1994. Endeavour began its sixth mission on the morning of 9 April 1994 with an on-time launch at 7:05 am Eastern time. Soon after, the six astronauts began activating the sensitive radar equipment in the payload bay that would be operated around the clock during the next ten days.
STS-82 was the 22nd flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery and the 82nd mission of the Space Shuttle program. It was NASA's second mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, during which Discovery's crew repaired and upgraded the telescope's scientific instruments, increasing its research capabilities. Discovery launched from Kennedy Space ...