flown missionSuccess
Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-55
Lockheed Space Operations CompanyLaunch Complex 39A — Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- STS-55
- Target orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
STS-55 (Space Transportation System 55), or D-2 was the 55th overall flight of the US Space Shuttle and the 14th flight of Shuttle Columbia. This flight was a multinational Spacelab flight involving 88 experiments from eleven different nations. The experiments ranged from biology sciences to simple earth observations.
schedule
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vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Provider
- Lockheed Space Operations Company
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- USA
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launch site
- Pad
- Launch Complex 39A
- Location
- Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Country
- USA
- Timezone
- America/New_York
- Coordinates
- 28.6082, -80.6043