Long-Duration Exposure Facility
The Long-Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) was a largely passive re-usable satellite payload tailored to exploit the Space Shuttle’s two-way transportation capability. Specifically, the LDEF was designed to provide a large number of economical opportunities for science and technology experiments that required modest electrical power and data processing while in space and which benefited from post-flight laboratory investigations with the retrieved experiment hardware. In fact, many of the experiments developed for the LDEF-STS mission were completely passive and depended entirely on post-flight laboratory investigations for the experiment results. (USAF photo)
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