Space Shuttle Endeavour's third flight deployed the TDRS-F tracking and data relay satellite via an Inertial Upper Stage, and carried the Diffuse X-ray Spectrometer Hitchhiker payload; crew included Susan Helms.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 25.8 T
- Flight
- 53rd
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 13 January 1993, 13:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1993-003
- Launches in 1993
- 3rd of 83
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