STS-70, Space Shuttle Discovery's 21st flight, deployed the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite TDRS-7 (TDRS-G) via an Inertial Upper Stage into geostationary orbit, completing NASA's original TDRS constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 24.9 T
- Flight
- 70th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 13 July 1995, 13:41 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1995-035
- Launches in 1995
- 39th of 80
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