STS-61 launched Space Shuttle Endeavour on NASA's first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, installing corrective optics (COSTAR) and a new camera to fix the mirror's spherical aberration over a record five spacewalks.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.8 T
- Flight
- 59th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 2 December 1993, 09:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1993-075
- Launches in 1993
- 79th of 83
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