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HERCULES Terrain Location System technical reference plate

HERCULES Terrain Location SystemCrew-operated digital geolocation camera system/Flown hardwareHERCULES was a portable digital Earth-observation system that coupled a modified Nikon camera to a ring-laser gyro, an attitude processor, and a Shuttle laptop.

Glow and Cryogenic Heat Pipe Payload technical reference plate

Glow and Cryogenic Heat Pipe PayloadCombined optical and cryogenic thermal-test payload/Mission concludedThe STS-53 Glow/Cryogenic Heat Pipe payload combined two experiments on a nonstandard Hitchhiker installation.