NASA Photo ID: S92-41439          File Name: 10064817.gif 
 
Film Type: 4x5 CN                 Date Taken: 07/16/92 
 
Title: STS-46 EURECA spacecraft during processing at Astrotech Space Operation 
 
Description: 
 
STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, European Retrievable Carrier 1L 
(EURECA-1L) stowed solar array is checked out by German aerospace workers 
at  the Astrotech Space Operations spacecraft processing facility in 
Titusville,  Florida.  The clean-suited workers have just removed EURECA-1L 
from its  shipping container.  Designed and built by an international 
contractor team  lead by the German firm MBB / ERNO, the spacecraft is 
scheduled for  deployment from OV-104's payload bay (PLB) during STS-46.  
The European Space  Agency (ESA) is sponsoring EURECA-1L, a free-flying 
reusable research  platform that will be deployed and retrieved at a later 
date by another  Shuttle crew.  View provided by the Kennedy Space Center 
(KSC) with alternate  number KSC-91PC-1955.