Published 2025-05-12 · Duration 2:12 · Video file(11 MB)
Commander Dave Walker and Pilot Ken Cockerell successfully captured a satellite in orbit, gathering data on heat and forces.
Transcript
Everything has gone pretty much by the book this morning. A flawless rendezvous by Commander Dave Walker and Pilot Ken Cockerell to get Endeavour back into position to conduct a series of jet thruster firings upon the Wake Shield facility from distances of 290 and 200 feet. unofficially a total of 14 jet thruster firings were conducted to gather valuable data on heat, pressure, and forces impinged upon the free-flying satellite by the orbiter's jet thrusters. Astronaut Jim Newman at the aft flight deck of Endeavour now slowly moving the robot arm in for the capture of the Wake Shield facility to complete three days of free flight. Payload controllers here, very happy with the performance of Wake Shield... it is a very stable satellite so that the spacecraft is stable, Looks like we have a data problem. We concur, sir. Good view now of the end effector of the robot arm manned by Jim Newman.