Space Shuttle Atlantis deployed ESA's EURECA science platform and attempted the first flight of the NASA/ASI Tethered Satellite System; a jammed reel let the tether extend only about 256 meters instead of the planned 20 km before the test was called off.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 18.3 T
- Flight
- 49th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 31 July 1992, 13:56 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Heliophysics
- International designator
- 1992-049
- Launches in 1992
- 50th of 97
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