Space Shuttle Columbia SOLSE/LORE Mission #1

SOLSE / LORE is a Hitchhiker-J payload manifested on STS-87. This is a space shuttle Columbia mission. Launch occurred at 2:46 PM launch on November 19, 1997. The can containing the instruments is mounted on the starboard sill in the shuttle cargo bay (Bay 7). As a Hitchhiker-J payload the instruments use shuttle power and will have limited telemetry of data to the crew cabin.

Three orbits for limb-viewing measurements were requested and two orbits of limb-viewing data were obtained on December 2nd. The orbits are shown on this map. We have validation data from balloon flights from Ascension Island and fron Reunion Island. We are requesting a reflight of SOLSE/LORE. We got only two of the three required orbits of data because of the SPARTAN problem. An EVA had to be scheduled in the time slot that would have been our 3rd orbit.

Mission Description

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