Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-43) deployed TDRS-5 on an Inertial Upper Stage, boosting NASA's fifth Tracking and Data Relay Satellite into geosynchronous orbit to support shuttle and orbital communications. Commanded by John Blaha, the crew also ran the Space Station Heat Pipe Advanced Radiator Element experiment.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 25.9 T
- Flight
- 42nd
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 2 August 1991, 15:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1991-054
- Launches in 1991
- 56th of 91
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