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In 1986, Honeywell built a facility for its Space business at 59th Avenue and Union Hills in Glendale, Arizona. It was the first stand-alone facility for Honeywell’s Space business, which manufactures products for NASA’s fleet of Space Shuttles, Satellites and the International Space Station.

The location manager at the time had this space shuttle model made to debut at the facility’s grand opening in August 1986. After the grand opening, the model was used at industry trade shows around the country, local educational events and displayed in the entrance of the facility. The model was a way for employees and customers to identify more closely with how Honeywell contributes to space.
Model Details

The Space Shuttle model depicts Space Shuttle Atlantis. The model stands about 10’ high and 4’ wide, mounted on a base. The base alone is about 2’ high and 4’ wide.
The Model shows only the exterior of the Shuttle with the Payload bay open. The Shuttle is presented in a launch view, vertical, attached to two (white) solid rocket boosters and one (orange) external tank.
Inside the Payload Bay: There is a model of the Galileo Satellite inside the Space Shuttle payload bay, where satellites are stored when being transported to space.
In October 1989, Galileo was transported into space by Atlantis and propelled to an orbit around Jupiter, where it relayed detailed information back to Earth about the solar system’s largest planet and its moons.

Honeywell provided product for the Galileo spacecraft, including two critical subsystems: the spin bearing assembly and the scan actuator subsystem. Honeywell’s spin bearing assembly controlled the satellite’s rotation, and its scan actuator subsystem was used to point instruments gathering data during flyby encounters with Jupiter.


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