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>Whether it's a sprained ankle or a backpack at the airport, X-ray images are an everyday occurrence in many areas. Empa researchers at the Center for X-Ray Analytics have succeeded in taking images that are far less commonplace: In collaboration with the Swiss Space Center (now Space Innovation at EPFL) and the Swiss Museum of Transport, they have X-rayed an entire satellite. The imaged satellite is called EURECA – short for EUropean REtrievable CArrier – and is one of a kind. It was launched into space in 1992 aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier deployed EURECA into orbit. There, the 4.5-ton satellite remained for the next eleven months – until it was captured by the crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on July 1, 1993, and brought back to Earth. This makes EURECA one of the very few satellites to have returned from its mission in space intact.

Archive: https://archive.today/B8KHF From the post: >>Whether it's a sprained ankle or a backpack at the airport, X-ray images are an everyday occurrence in many areas. Empa researchers at the Center for X-Ray Analytics have succeeded in taking images that are far less commonplace: In collaboration with the Swiss Space Center (now Space Innovation at EPFL) and the Swiss Museum of Transport, they have X-rayed an entire satellite. The imaged satellite is called EURECA – short for EUropean REtrievable CArrier – and is one of a kind. It was launched into space in 1992 aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier deployed EURECA into orbit. There, the 4.5-ton satellite remained for the next eleven months – until it was captured by the crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on July 1, 1993, and brought back to Earth. This makes EURECA one of the very few satellites to have returned from its mission in space intact.
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Note that returning intact was pretty much guaranteed because it was at great cost retrieved from orbit rather than miraculously falling to Earth unharmed.