Space Shuttle Columbia flew STS-52, deploying the LAGEOS-2 laser-ranging satellite, a joint NASA-Italian Space Agency geodesy mission boosted by Italy's IRIS upper stage, and operating the U.S. Microgravity Payload-1 materials-science experiments.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 11 T
- Flight
- 51st
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 22 October 1992, 17:09 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1992-070
- Launches in 1992
- 72nd of 97
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