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STS-38: Art, Classified payload & Overview
STS-38 was a Space Shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Atlantis. It was the 37th shuttle mission and carried a classified payload for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). It was the seventh flight for Atlantis and the seventh flight dedicated to the Department of Defense. The mission was a 4-day mission that traveled 3,291,199 km (2,045,056…
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STS-38 topic overview
The analysis highlights Art, Classified payload and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around STS-38.
Related topics
35
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
39
Extracted relationships
73
Concept neighborhoods
24
Bridge connections
39
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Classified payload · 19 topics
Overview · 13 topics
Preparations and launch · 2 topics
Landing · 1 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Apogee altitude
269 km (167 mi)
Contractor
Rockwell International
COSPAR ID
1990-097A
Crew size
5
Distance travelled
3,291,199 km (2,045,056 mi)
Inclination
28.45°
Explore all related topics Closing gaps
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.
Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.
How STS-38 connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around STS-38 shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, STS-38 → According, As, Atlantis, Aviation Week, ELINT, GTO, Gulf War, Inertial Upper Stage, It, IUS, Magnum, OMS, Satellite Data System, SDS-2, STS-28, STS-33, STS-51-C, STS-53, The, Today Another extracted example is STS-38 → Atlantis, Continued, Discovery, Edwards Air Force Base, EST, Kennedy Space Center, KSC, Landing, November, Runway, Shuttle Landing Facility, SLF, STS-51-D, The, The SLF, UTC. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
STS-38 → Atlantis, Continued, Discovery, Edwards Air Force Base, EST, Kennedy Space Center, KSC, Landing, November, Runway, Shuttle Landing Facility, SLF, STS-51-D, The, The SLF, UTC
Members· 5
STS-38 → Carl J. Meade, Charles D. Gemar, Frank L. Culbertson Jr., Richard O. Covey, Robert C. Springer
related to External links· 5
STS-38 → Archived July, Archived May, NASA, Wayback MachineAstronatix, Wayback MachineSTS-38 Video Highlights
related to Gallery· 2
STS-38 → Atlantis, Columbia
Apogee altitude· 1
STS-38 → 269 km (167 mi)
Contractor· 1
STS-38 → Rockwell International
COSPAR ID· 1
STS-38 → 1990-097A
Crew size· 1
STS-38 → 5
Distance travelled· 1
STS-38 → 3,291,199 km (2,045,056 mi)
Important terminology
Frequent words and multi-word phrases across the lead, headings, infobox and body. Useful for terminology coverage.
Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 73 structured relationships around STS-38. Examples in this analysis include STS-38 → Apogee altitude → 269 km (167 mi) and STS-38 → Contractor → Rockwell International. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
Subject
Predicate
Object
Confidence
Src
STS-38
Apogee altitude
269 km (167 mi)
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Contractor
Rockwell International
1.00
infobox
STS-38
COSPAR ID
1990-097A
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Crew size
5
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Distance travelled
3,291,199 km (2,045,056 mi)
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Inclination
28.45°
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Landing date
November 20, 1990, 21:42:46 (1990-11-20UTC21:42:47Z) UTC (4:42:46 pm EST)
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Landing mass
86,677 kg (191,090 lb)
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Landing site
Kennedy, SLF Runway 33
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Launch date
November 15, 1990, 23:48:15 (1990-11-15UTC23:48:15Z) UTC (6:48:15 pm EST)
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Launch mass
2,055,639 kg (4,531,908 lb)
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Launch site
Kennedy, LC-39A
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Members
Richard O. Covey
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Members
Frank L. Culbertson Jr.
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Members
Carl J. Meade
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Members
Robert C. Springer
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Members
Charles D. Gemar
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Mission duration
4 days, 21 hours, 54 minutes, 31 seconds
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Mission type
DoD satellite deployment
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Names
Space Transportation System-38
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Operator
NASA
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Orbits completed
79
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Payload mass
(Classified)
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Perigee altitude
260 km (160 mi)
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Period
89.79 minutes
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Reference system
Geocentric orbit
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Regime
Low Earth orbit
1.00
infobox
STS-38
SATCAT no.
20935
1.00
infobox
STS-38
Spacecraft
Space Shuttle Atlantis
1.00
infobox
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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around STS-38 bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Satellite, System and Deployed. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
space shuttle
Shuttle
Space
Kennedy
Mission
Landing
Atlantis
Sts-38
Center
Nasa
Launch
Km
Mi
space shuttle atlantis
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Mission
Landing
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Sts-38
Center
Nasa
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Center
Kennedy
Shuttle
Mission
Space
Time
Landing
Facility
Atlantis
Runway
Sts-38
Nasa
shuttle landing facility
Space
Mission
Landing
Shuttle
Center
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Orbiter
Km
Mi
Sts-38
Atlantis
Nasa
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Space
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Time
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Occurred
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Launch
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classified payload
Payload
Launch
Mission
Due
Orbit
Deployed
November
Satellite
Landing
Shuttle
Space
Also
classified
Payload
Mission
Launch
Orbit
Landing
Shuttle
Space
Also
Defense
Department
Nasa
Occurred
preparations and launch
November
Est
Space
Payload
Occurred
Sts-35
Mission
Sts-38
Shuttle
Nasa
System
Mi
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For STS-38, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects STS-38 with Classified payload. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
STS-38
Nodes40
Edges39
Triples73
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.05
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around STS-38 to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Art, Classified payload & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
