Endeavour's maiden flight retrieved the stranded Intelsat VI (F-3) satellite, stuck in a useless orbit since 1990, and fitted it with a new perigee kick motor for boost to geostationary orbit. Capturing it required the only three-astronaut spacewalk in history after two solo attempts failed, and the mission logged a record four EVAs.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 16.4 T
- Flight
- 47th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 7 May 1992, 23:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1992-026
- Launches in 1992
- 27th of 97
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