STS-125 sent Space Shuttle Atlantis on the fifth and final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, installing the Wide Field Camera 3 and Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and repairing two other instruments over five spacewalks.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 13 T
- Flight
- 126th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 11 May 2009, 18:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 2009-025
- Launches in 2009
- 27th of 78
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