Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-41-C) deployed the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) and repaired the Solar Maximum Mission satellite on orbit, the first orbital satellite repair by shuttle crew using MMUs.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 26 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 6 April 1984, 13:58 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- International designator
- 1984-034
- Launches in 1984
- 34th of 129
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
Object pages on Space Atlas: LDEF
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