Space Shuttle Columbia flew STS-109, the fourth Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, installing the Advanced Camera for Surveys, new rigid solar arrays and an experimental cryocooler across five spacewalks, and reboosting Hubble to a higher orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 9.4 T
- Flight
- 108th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 1 March 2002, 11:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 2002-010
- Launches in 2002
- 10th of 65
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