BATSE Home Page Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO)
Construction and Launch Picture tour


Table of Contents

  1. CGRO Principal Investigators
     
  2. A Single BATSE Module
     
  3. Eight BATSE Modules
     
  4. BATSE Module Installation on CGRO
     
  5. BATSE Module after Installation on CGRO
     
  6. BATSE Module with Thermal Blanket
     
  7. OSSE Prior to Installation on CGRO
     
  8. EGRET Installation on CGRO
     
  9. CGRO Radioactive Source Survey
     
  10. Launch
     
  11. The Crew of STS-37
     
  12. CGRO in the Cargo Bay of Atlantis
     
  13. Remote Manipulator Arm on Atlantis Lifts the 17-ton CGRO
     
  14. CGRO is lifted out of the bay of the orbiter
     
  15. CGRO on the Remote Manipulator Arm
     
  16. CGRO at deployment
     
  17. View through space shuttle window
     
  18. Several views from inside the shuttle
     
  19. Mission Specialist Jerry Ross
     
  20. CGRO is deployed
     


 

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Modification date: 11 Sep, 2001

Authors Robert S. Mallozzi  John M. Horack
Responsible Manager Steve Elrod
Site Curator Valerie Connaughton