STS-7 (Challenger), NASA’s second Challenger flight, which deployed Anik C2 and Palapa B1 communications satellites plus SPAS-01; Sally Ride became the first American woman in space on this six-day LEO mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 22.9 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 18 June 1983, 11:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1983-059
- Launches in 1983
- 60th of 129
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