Scott tested out the thermal modifications to the spacesuit by standing in shadow on the Spartan Flight Support Structure while the Orbiter was turned to make the payload bay as cold as possible. Endeavour closed its payload bay doors early on Jan 20, firing its braking rockets at 0641 UTC and reentered to a nighttime landing on runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center at 0742 UTC on Jan 20. The next Shuttle mission is STS-75, with orbiter Columbia and the reflight of the 20 km long tethered satellite, which failed on its first flight in 1992. IRS-1C's panchromatic camera has a resolution of under 6 m, not 10m as I said earlier. Thanks to several readers for the correction.
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Ariane V82 was launched on Jan 12 from Kourou. V82 carried two communications satellites, PAS 3R and Measat 1. PAS 3R is a Hughes HS-601 comsat with a launch mass of 2918 kg, to provide C and Ku band communications and television broadcasting services for the Atlantic Ocean region. PAS 3R replaces PAS 3, lost in a launch accident in 1994. Measat 1 is owned by Binariang Sdn.