Atlantis carried the first Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-1), a Spacelab pallet payload with 12 instruments from seven nations studying atmospheric chemistry, solar radiation, and space plasma physics over an 8-day mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.7 T
- Flight
- 46th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 24 March 1992, 13:13 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- International designator
- 1992-015
- Launches in 1992
- 16th of 97
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