STS-41-D, the maiden flight of Space Shuttle Discovery and the 12th Shuttle mission, launched from Kennedy Space Center. The crew deployed commercial satellites SBS-4, Telstar 302, and Leasat 2, and tested NASA’s large OAST-1 experimental solar array.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 25.1 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 30 August 1984, 12:41 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1984-093
- Launches in 1984
- 93rd of 129
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