STS-5, the first operational Space Shuttle mission, launching Columbia from Kennedy LC-39A with a four-astronaut crew and deploying commercial communications satellites SBS-3 and Anik C3—the first satellites deployed from a Shuttle.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 21 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 11 November 1982, 12:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1982-110
- Launches in 1982
- 116th of 129
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