Image: STS-51-D Syncom IV-3 activation effort
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Description: The flyswatter device is used on Syncom IV-3 during STS-51-D. The Space Shuttle Discovery's remote manipulator system (RMS) arm and two specially designed extensions move toward the troubled Syncom-IV (LEASAT) communications satellite. Behind it the earth's clouded surface can be seen.
Title: STS-51-D Syncom IV-3 activation effort
Credit: NASA http://nix.larc.nasa.gov/info;jsessionid=5m6ddk0sq530t?id=STS51D-44-046&orgid=8 Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons. Transfer was stated to be made by User:TheDJ.
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