xxIMAGE 1300_99\310a.Lbm,Europe's retrievable carrier satellite Eureca, at 4.5 tonnes the heaviest European satellite to date, is deployed from the space shuttle on August 1, 1992.
IMAGE 1300_99\313.Lbm,Atlantis's robot arm lifts the European retrievable satellite Eureca out of the payload bay, at the end of which can be seen the tethered satellite system. (STS-46)
xxIMAGE 1300_99\310b.Lbm,Atlantis's RMS arm lifts Eureca from the payload bay in deployment operations on August 1, 1992. The shuttle is passing over the Persian Gulf at the time.
xxIMAGE 1300_99\310c.Lbm,Eureca begins free flight as the shuttle passes over the sunlit west Atlantic. Cape Canaveral stands out clearly.