Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-51 mission deployed the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) on a Transfer Orbit Stage booster and released the German ORFEUS-SPAS ultraviolet astronomy platform, which was retrieved after a day of free flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 35 T
- Flight
- 57th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 12 September 1993, 11:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1993-058
- Launches in 1993
- 60th of 83
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