STS-51

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STS-51 was a NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission in 1993 that deployed the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite and conducted various scientific experiments in orbit.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf NASA spaceflight
Space Shuttle mission
commander Frank L. Culbertson Jr.
conductedExperiment life sciences experiments
materials science experiments
microgravity science experiments
crewSize 5
deployed ACTS
Advanced Communications Technology Satellite
ORFEUS-SPAS
EVA spacewalk to evaluate EVA tools and techniques
EVAcount 1
EVAPerformed yes
followedBy STS-58
landingDate 1993-09-22
landingSite Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility
launchDate 1993-09-12
launchPad Launch Complex 39B
launchSite Kennedy Space Center
missionDuration 9 days
about 236 hours
missionSpecialist Carl E. Walz
Daniel W. Bursch
James H. Newman
missionType microgravity research
satellite deployment
technology demonstration
operator NASA
orbitApogee approximately 306 km
orbitInclination 28.45 degrees
orbitPerigee approximately 296 km
orbitPeriod about 90 minutes
payload ACTS
GAS experiments
Get Away Special canisters
Middeck experiments
ORFEUS-SPAS
Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer
SPAS
linked to: SPAS platform

Shuttle Pallet Satellite
pilot William F. Readdy
precededBy STS-57
primaryPayload Advanced Communications Technology Satellite
retrieved ORFEUS-SPAS
spaceAgency NASA
spacecraft OV-103
spaceShuttle Space Shuttle Discovery
spaceShuttleProgram Space Shuttle program
vehicleFlightNumber Discovery flight 17
yearOfFlight 1993

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