Wake Shield Facility

Wake Shield Facility (WSF) was a NASA experimental science platform that was placed in low Earth orbit by the Space Shuttle.

During STS-60, some hardware issues were experienced, and, as a result, the WSF-1 was only deployed at the end of the Shuttle's Canadarm.

[4] Among the potential resulting applications are artificial retinas made from tiny ceramic detectors.

[5] The WSF was sponsored by the Space Processing Division in NASA's Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications.

As of 2012[update], the Wake Shield Facility spacecraft is being preserved at the Center for Advanced Materials.