Space Shuttle Discovery STS-51-G deployed Morelos 1 (Mexico), Telstar 303 (AT&T), and Arabsat 1B commercial communications satellites plus Spartan 101; carried the first Arab astronaut, Sultan Al-Saud.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 22.8 T
- Flight
- 18th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 17 June 1985, 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
- 1985-048
- Launches in 1985
- 49th of 125
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