Talk:STS-87

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Spartan Satellite event
"A small satellite designed to study the sun failed to turn on today after it was released from the space shuttle Columbia."

"Release from the robot arm should have set off an internal timer, triggering a self-test maneuver causing Spartan to pirouette 45 degrees, which would have indicated the satellite was operating normally. The pirouette never happened."

It was recaptured during a spacewalk.

Mentioned on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-95#Spartan when it was redepoloyed.

Interestica (talk) 18:52, 28 October 2020 (UTC) interestica

First mission to use TDRS during launch
STS-87 apparently was first launch to roll heads-up to transmit telemetry to TDRS satellite during launch and SRB burn. (Previous launches had flown heads-down to send telemetry to ground stations). - Rod57 (talk) 10:02, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Public Domain "Plagiarism"
The whole mission highlights section was copy-pasted from the official NASA mission history website for STS-87 back in 2004 by none other than @Theon~enwiki ([diff]), and hasn't been properly credited or majorly edited in over twenty years. At least he didn't plagiarize from spacefacts.de, though it looks like it on Earwig bc they also copied the mission summary from NASA's website to put on their page. A different me would've used this as a catalyst to focus on this article (see Talk:STS-47), but for now I'll just slap a template on it and move on. SpacePod9 (talk) 03:05, 8 June 2024 (UTC)