NASA's STS-103 sent Space Shuttle Discovery to Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 3A, replacing all six gyroscopes, a Fine Guidance Sensor and the onboard computer after four gyros had failed. Hubble was released on Christmas Day, the only Shuttle mission to span Christmas.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.3 T
- Flight
- 96th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 20 December 1999, 00:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1999-069
- Launches in 1999
- 74th of 78
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