Space Shuttle Atlantis flew STS-30 and deployed the Magellan spacecraft on a trajectory to Venus, where its synthetic-aperture radar later mapped over 98% of the planet's surface hidden beneath its thick cloud cover.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 26.5 T
- Flight
- 29th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 4 May 1989, 18:46 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 1989-033
- Launches in 1989
- 33rd of 102
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