STS-56, Space Shuttle Discovery's 16th flight, carried the ATLAS-2 (Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science-2) payload studying the Sun's energy output and its effects on Earth's middle atmosphere and ozone layer; the crew also deployed and retrieved the SPARTAN-201 free-flyer.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 9.1 T
- Flight
- 54th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 8 April 1993, 05:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1993-023
- Launches in 1993
- 23rd of 83
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