Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-41 mission deployed the ESA/NASA Ulysses probe toward the Sun's polar regions, using a combined IUS/PAM-S upper stage for the first out-of-ecliptic trajectory. It was the heaviest shuttle payload flown to that point.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 26.1 T
- Flight
- 36th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 6 October 1990, 11:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Heliophysics
- International designator
- 1990-090
- Launches in 1990
- 95th of 121
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