STS-31: Space Shuttle Discovery deployed the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit, the start of NASA's flagship optical observatory after years of delay following the Challenger disaster.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 23.1 T
- Flight
- 35th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 24 April 1990, 12:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1990-037
- Launches in 1990
- 39th of 121
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