Tether Sighting NASA STS-75

We had the camera Bravo Conceciel, the 10th and fortunately we don't see the tip of the broom but in a few seconds you'll see the 10th break and this one of course was a lot of 10, it just recorded, it could not be bumped either so it would record steadily the whole break and record back to the 10th. Copy Claude. Here we go. This is the end of the video. Commander Nielan reported earlier that the Tether apparently broke inside the boom in Columbia's cargo bay with only about 10 meters of Tether left attached in the cargo bay. Columbia and the satellite now 77 nautical miles apart in that call reporting that the crew can see the Tether and see the satellite that's beautiful. This view is showing a satellite again I would just move into sunrise 81 nautical miles in the middle of the plane. Franklin we see a long line couple of star-like things and a lot of things swimming in the foreground can you describe what you're seeing. The long line is a cutter and there's a little bit of debris that kind of fly with us and it's a limited by the sun that's such low angle. This is the longest trail I had and is getting washed out quickly but that lot is trying to do a quick good job here. Go to the cameras. Copy that. You know that description by the crew this is the Tether in the satellite with 12. Approximately 12 miles of Tether still attached to it. Columbia in the satellite to now just passing over the west coast of Northern Africa. The two spacecraft now 90 nautical miles apart. The controllers for the satellite to have communications with it during the close pass between Columbia and the satellite. Columbia Houston that's a much better view. A lot more contrast visible and how wide does that Tether appear to be. It seems to resemble a much wider strand than we'd expect to can you describe which way the satellite is visible on that strand. The satellite to now 100 nautical miles. The satellite in Columbia now is 100 nautical miles apart. The controllers here are remaining communications with the satellite that they've been in communications with it now via the pilot interrogator on board Columbia using Columbia as communications relay station for a telemetry from the satellite. They've been in communications for about 47 minutes receiving very solid lock of communications with it. Those communications now are starting to get some interference however. Again, the two passed within 46 nautical miles of one another. The crew first saw the satellite when it was 150 nautical miles distant. That during the past sunrise during this sunrise, this view shows the satellite again here in the center of the screen. With that 12 nautical miles of Tether connected to it, at present the two now are 100 nautical miles apart. Columbia now ahead of the satellite. Continue to separate from it at a rate of 335 nautical miles per orbit. We can still see it on our body to have a very faint and straight line becoming smaller and smaller than the satellite. Planning the satellite.ückenzone, and Metro G87. There. There's the up and left hand corner there. There isn't an out. He's got to see us from here. Yes, sir, we have it. Great picture. It came in one, pretty quick, but that was about as much as we have of it. Great, everything. We'll be heading over here in about 45 seconds. Since just a tiny hole in this satellite, training behind us, we're trying to point one of the... Yes, we're trying to point one of the... Yes, we're trying to point one of the... Thanks, Claude. We got the downlink and we're looking. Okay, Claude, we see it now. Hey, is that the straight segment? Under the same radius of the hole, the length of the segment. Right now we don't really see the sunlight itself. That's a straight segment in the sky. We see the satellite now. It's like a right spot at the end of the dead end of the other end. The lower end is also rented at the right spot, which is maybe in accumulation of the dead end of the... And we are down the gate, come and tell them. Okay, we copied and understand that as you're viewing it on the monitor, the satellite is at the top of the top. That's correct. That's correct. Well, let me take this back. Venus is about the... So these are the same side of Venus. So it's on the monitor, making it the money to the lower side of the monitor. And thanks, Claude. We copied. That's easy, can't let that go. Affirmative. Yeah, we just selected it Franklin and we see the satellite. Yeah, we just selected it Franklin and we see the satellite. Okay, great. Come on, we used to find those showing the satellite to be 719 miles away from Columbia. Claude's pretty lazy, and we were wondering whether it'd be able to see it at 20 kilometers. Well, that is an excellent data point, I guess, in the cosmic scheme of things, though, even 719 miles is right next door. Here we have the board between Central and South America and then track across the lower Caribbean before making a swing across the Atlantic Ocean and a tour across northwestern central and south eastern portions of Africa.