STS-26 was Discovery's Return to Flight mission after the 1986 Challenger disaster, deploying the TDRS-3 relay satellite via an Inertial Upper Stage six hours into the flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 24.3 T
- Flight
- 26th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 29 September 1988, 15:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1988-091
- Launches in 1988
- 95th of 121
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