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Westar VI Communications Satellite

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Date:

1988

Type of material:

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Item ID number:

2964173

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Westar VI Communications Satellite
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Date(s):

1988

Place:

Cambridge, Ontario

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Publisher:

Comdev

Extent:

1 reproduction : offset lithograph on card
Support 60.200 x 87.200 cm

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Depicted is a view from the space shuttle Discovery showing astronauts Dale Gardner and Joseph P. Allen IV, on the mobile foot restraint, attached to the Canadarm, in the process of bringing the Westar VI communications satellite into the cargo bay., @2, The accession and items numbers for this collection are still to be determined.

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Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: Recto. on the image, t.l.: A man's reach should / exceed his grasp, / or what's a heaven for? / - Robert Browning. Verso, on the border outside the image frame line c.r.: COM DEV (with logo) / This View was taken from the / space shuttle Discovery. / Astronauts Dale A. Gardner, left, / and Joseph P. Allen IV on the / mobile foot restraint attached to / the Canadarm, work together to / bring the Westar VI / communications satellite into / the cargo bay. / / After Several months in space, / Westar VI had been subjected to / radiation and temperature / extremes far exceeding its design / parameters. COMDEV of / Cambridge, Ontario designed and / manufactured the microwave /multiplexers for Westar VI, critical / to the satellite's performance, / these components were / subsequently found to be / unaffected by the conditions to / which they had been subjected. //// Photo courtesy of NASA. Recto, in black lettering, on a sheet of white paper, inset into the mat, below the image, b.c.: PRESENTED TO / MR. BRIAN MULRONEY, PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA / ON THE OCCASION OF HIS VISIT TO COM DEV / OCTOBER 28th, 1988.

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The Brian Mulroney collection
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1995 DAP
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