Could anyone ID this spacecraft

Looks like an RCA Satcom K1 (geostationary communications satellite).

That guy has 'RCA' on his coat I think. I googled for 'satellite RCA' and found that it was the guys involved with Direct TV.

Enough googling, and I'm thinking the Anik B platform

http://satjournal.tcom.ohiou.edu/issue4/historal_hybrid.html

The KSC website is being crap at the moment - but it might have been a later Shuttle launched version of the same thing.

Doug

It's the coffee machine in the KSC cafeteria.

Phil

<Bender voice> Hey there, momma! Rrrrowww!!!</Bender voice>

I swear the coffee machine in the staff room behind the operating theatres in a nearby hospital where I was dong some filming was more complicated than that spacecraft...it was certainly more complicated to operate than any of the procedures being done in the operating theatre next door.

Doug

I saw a DirecTV SV containerized a few months back; they're not very big either, if this is in fact what it is.

<Fry voice>Yess, momma! ... Wait... Ahhh, I'm not a robot!</Fry voice>

Nothing strange in that. Medical equipment has to be reasonably simple to operate for safety reasons, there is no such requirement for a coffee machine.

"Warum es einfach machen, wenn man es so schön komplizieren kann" as it said on a placard in a german drawing office.

Argh...time to drag out the 3 years of high-school German I took but never used for an attempt at translation (tell me if I'm close):

"Why make it hard? Because man finds complexity beautiful!"

"Why make it simple when it can be so beautifully complicated?"

that's an early RCA microwave oven

they were in a microwave oven race with Raytheon at the time

this one was deployed on the Naval Carrier USS Enterprise to speed up meal times and the fact that this prototype oven required a 1.3 gigawatt nuclear power connector

...Well, I done went & mangled that, didn't I? Point well taken, though.