Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-64 mission tested the Lidar In-space Technology Experiment (LITE) and released the SPARTAN-201 solar-wind observatory; spacewalkers also conducted the first US untethered EVA in a decade, trialing the SAFER rescue backpack.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 10.5 T
- Flight
- 64th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 9 September 1994, 22:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1994-059
- Launches in 1994
- 62nd of 93
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