STS-6, the maiden flight of Space Shuttle Challenger from Kennedy LC-39A with a four-astronaut crew, deploying TDRS-1—NASA's first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite—and conducting the first Shuttle EVA later in the mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 25.8 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 4 April 1983, 18:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1983-026
- Launches in 1983
- 27th of 129
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
Object pages on Space Atlas: TDRS 1
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