Launched aboard a Titan IVB/Centaur on October 15, 1997, Cassini was active in space for nearly 20 years, with 13 years spent orbiting Saturn and studying the planet and its system after entering orbit on July 1, 2004.[1]
Cassini is the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn and Huygens is the first spacecraft to land on Titan. Huygens released from Cassini on 25 December 2004.
Crewed orbital flight with six astronauts Spartan failed to orient itself due to human error during deployment on 21 November; was retrieved on 25 November.
Replaced a Fine Guidance Sensor and an Engineering and Science Tape Recorder with spare replacement units. Also installed the Optical Control Electronics Enhancement Kit.[32]
Hubble Space Telescope servicing
16 February 02:53
7 hours 11 minutes
10:04
STS-82 Discovery
Mark C. Lee Steven Smith
Replaced a Data Interface Unit with a spare unit and replaced a reel-to-reel tape drive Engineering and Science Tape Recorder with a solid-state digital version. Also replaced one of the four Reaction Wheel Assembly units that help point the telescope at targets.[33]
Hubble Space Telescope servicing
17 February 03:45
6 hours 34 minutes
10:19
STS-82 Discovery
Gregory J. Harbaugh Joseph R. Tanner
Replaced the Solar Array Drive Electronics package with a spare, also replaced the covers of the satellite's magnetometers. Installed thermal blankets over areas of degraded insulation.[34]
Hubble Space Telescope servicing
18 February 03:15
5 hours 17 minutes
08:32
STS-82 Discovery
Mark C. Lee Steven Smith
Installed more thermal insulation on three more areas that had undergone degradation.[35]
Installed the Optical Properties Monitor on the exterior of Kristall. Used the Strela crane to move to the Kvant-2 module. At Kvant-2 they retrieved two American experiments, the Partial Impact Experiment and the Mir Sample Experiment, from the Kvant-2 hull, and installed the Benton Radiation Dosimeter on Kvant-2.[36]
Reconnected power cabling to the Spektr solar arrays, thus restoring part of the power lost in the collision. Although the spacewalkers were able to recover equipment and supplies from the module, they were not able to find the puncture hole.[37]
Solovyev rode the Strela crane operated by Foale on the base block to Spektr to inspect for damage. Although an extensive documentation and search of Spektr, he was unable to find the hole. Before he returned to the airlock, Foale collected the radiation dosimeter installed outside earlier.[38]
Foale became the first person to conduct EVAs in both American and Russian spacesuits.[39]
Retrieved the four Mir Environmental Effects Packages from the docking module surface. Also installed the Solar Array Cap to the docking module, to be used to plug the hole in the Spektr module on a future EVA. To close out the EVA, the spacewalkers tested the Simplified Aid For EVA Rescue jet packs.[40]
20 October 09:40
6 hours 38 minutes
16:18
Mir EO-24 Transfer compartmentof DOS-7
Anatoly Solovyev Pavel Vinogradov
Attempted to install three control cables between the solar array servo motors to the special adapter plate that seals Spektr from the rest of Mir. After cleaning up some of the debris and loose items in Spektr, Solovyev was able to connect the three cables to the servos. But even after an effort that extended into the "emergency oxygen supply" of the Orlan space suits, Solovyev was only able to connect two of the cables to the adapter plate.[41]
Internal EVA to repair the damaged Spektr module
3 November 03:32
6 hours 4 minutes
09:36
Mir EO-24 Kvant-2
Anatoly Solovyev Pavel Vinogradov
Released a minispunik (mini-satellite) into orbit. The spacewalkers then dismantled the old solar panel MSB-4 on Kvant-1. They stowed the panel on the outside of the base block.[42]
6 November 00:12
6 hours 12 minutes
06:24
Mir EO-24 Kvant-2
Anatoly Solovyev Pavel Vinogradov
Installed a new solar array on Kvant-1 to replace the panel removed on their previous spacewalk.[43]
Captured the Spartan satellite by hand and secured it in the payload bay. Then the spacewalking team set up and tested a crane that will be used to construct the International Space Station.[44]
Doi became the first Japanese spacewalker.
3 December 09:09
4 hours 59 minutes
14:09
STS-87 Columbia
Winston E. Scott Takao Doi
Conducted more testing and evaluation of the crane in the payload bay. They repeated many of the same crane motion tests with smaller objects than in the earlier EVA. During the EVA a small free-flying video camera was deployed to record the work.[45]
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Payloads are separated by bullets ( · ), launches by pipes ( | ). Crewed flights are indicated in underline. Uncatalogued launch failures are listed in italics. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are denoted in (brackets).
