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STS-48 is a NASA press release (dated August 22, 1991) detailing the
STS-48 of Discovery to loft a satellite to study the atmosphere and ozone
levels of our planet. Discovery deployed the Upper Atmosphere Research
Satellite (UARS) 350 statute miles above Earth to study mankind's effect
on the planet's atmosphere and its shielding ozone layer as the highlight
of Space Shuttle mission STS-48. UARS is designed to last through two
winters in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern. The Upper
Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is the first major flight element of
NASA's Mission to Planet Earth, a multi-year global research program that
will use ground-based, airborne and space-based instruments to study the
Earth as a complete environmental system. Other objectives of the flight
were to include Protein Crystal Growth-7, the seventh flight of a middeck
experiment in growing protein crystals in weightlessness; the Middeck
0-Gravity Dynamics Experiment, a study of how fluids and structures react
in weightlessness; the Investigations into Polymer Membrane Processing-4,
research into creating polymer membranes, used as filters in many
industrial refining processes, in space; the Physiological and Anatomical
Rodent Experiment, a study of the effects of weightlessness on rodents;
the Shuttle Activation Monitor, a device that will measure the amounts of
gamma rays in the Shuttle's crew cabin; the Cosmic Radiation Effects and
Activation Monitor, a study of cosmic radiation in the orbiter environment;
the Radiation Monitoring Experiment, an often flown device that monitors
the amounts of radiation inside the Shuttle; and the Air Force Maui
Optical System, a use of the Shuttle's visibility in orbit to calibrate
Air Force optical instruments in Hawaii. Also, in the payload bay with
UARS, the Ascent Particle Monitor will measure any contaminants that enter
the cargo bay during launch. If any of these experiments interest you,
then this file is for you.
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