Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-51-A) deployed Anik D2 and Leasat 1 communications satellites and retrieved the stranded Westar 6 and Palapa B2 spacecraft for return to Earth.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 28.3 T
- Flight
- 14th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 8 November 1984, 12:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1984-113
- Launches in 1984
- 113th of 129
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