Space Shuttle Discovery deployed the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), a 14,500-pound NASA observatory built to study ozone depletion and chemistry in Earth's stratosphere. Commanded by John Creighton, the STS-48 crew also tested a space debris and glow-detection instrument.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 14.3 T
- Flight
- 43rd
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 12 September 1991, 23:11 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1991-063
- Launches in 1991
- 66th of 91
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Object pages on Space Atlas: UARS
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