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last updated: 07. 03. 2007
 


CRISTA-SPAS has successfully completed two space shuttle missions

  CRISTA-SPAS 1 on STS-66: November 3-14, 1994
On Nov 3, 1994 CRISTA 1 was launched aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis into a 300 km, 57° inclination orbit for mission STS-66 .
Atmospheric measurements were obtained in the free-flying phase from November 4-12, 1994,
travelling 50-100 km behind the shuttle. CRISTA measured about 50,000 height profiles of limb radiance spectra by using a number of different measurement modes (including scans of different altitude regions of the atmosphere) and some calibration modes.
On November 12 the satellite was retrieved and two days later returned to Earth. The STS-66 payload also  included the SSBUV experiment and the ATLAS-3 instrument package.

More images of CRISTA and CRISTA-SPAS are found in the GALLERY.
Read the whole STS-66 story from the NASA archive.

CRISTA-SPAS 2 on STS-85: August 7-19, 1997
[CRISTA-SPAS 2]

CRISTA 2 was launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery  August 7, 1997 for mission STS-85 .
Atmospheric measurements were made between August 8, 05:21 UT and August 16, 09:30 UT. The Space Shuttle landed on August 19, 11:08 UT at NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

CRISTA-2 mission details are found here.
Read the whole STS-85 story from the NASA archive.
More images of CRISTA and CRISTA-SPAS are found in the GALLERY.
This is a NASA video taking during CRISTA-SPAS retrieval.
Go to NASA's STS-85 archive and find more amazing photos and videos of CRISTA-SPAS and other activities during the mission. .