https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/cd9c578f-4b93-4a07-9afa-a179c43536f5 On this fourth day of the STS-77 mission, the flight crew, Cmdr. John H. Casper, Pilot Curtis L. Brown, Jr., and Mission Specialists Andrew S.W. Thomas, Ph.D., Daniel W. Bursch, Mario Runco, Jr., and Marc Garneau, Ph.D., turned their attention to the deployment of a small technology demonstration satellite known as PAMS. The Passive Aerodynamically Stabilized Magnetically-damped Satellite uses aerodynamic stabilization to orient itself properly and demonstrates a technique that could prolong the lifetime of a satellite by reducing or eliminating the requirement for attitude control propellants. After Mission Specialist Mario Runco deploys the satellite from a canister in the rear of Endeavour's payload bay, it drifts away from the orbiter in a rotating, unstable attitude by design to evaluate how quickly and effectively the spacecraft can stabilize itself using the aerodynamic stabilization method rather than by thrusters. Later in the day, the crew is seen being interviewed by Canadian Television. May 1996 Mirrored from YouTube: https://youtu.be/epK-hNKiyH4 Original channel: NASA STI Program Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:49:57 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/ec5edb1e-3795-4978-be4f-c67e98fbc992.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/cd9c578f-4b93-4a07-9afa-a179c43536f5 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.