STS-59: Space Shuttle Endeavour carried the Space Radar Laboratory (SRL-1), including the SIR-C/X-SAR imaging radar and the MAPS air-pollution instrument, on an 11-day Earth-observation mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 10.7 T
- Flight
- 62nd
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 9 April 1994, 11:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1994-020
- Launches in 1994
- 21st of 93
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