NASA Photo ID: STS049(E)032       File Name: 10065164.gif 
 
Film Type: 35mm BW                Date Taken: 05/16/92 
 
Title: STS-49 DTO 648 ESC image shows INTELSAT VI F-3 prior to retrieval/capture ops 
 
Description: 
 
STS-49 crewmember captured this image of the International 
Telecommunications  Organization Satellite (INTELSAT) VI F-3 using the 
electronic still camera  (ESC) as part of Development Test Objective (DTO) 
648, Electronic Still  Photography Test (With Downlink), during 
Endeavour's, Orbiter Vehicle (OV)  105's, proximity operations with the 
satellite.  STS-49 crewmembers were  surveying the satellite while 
considering the next step, following two  unsuccessful efforts to grapple 
INTELSAT.  Electronic still photography is a  new technology which provides 
the means for a handheld camera to  electronically capture and digitize an 
image with resolution approaching film  quality.