Space Shuttle Columbia flew STS-75, reflying the US-Italian Tethered Satellite System (TSS-1R) alongside the US Microgravity Payload-3. The tether broke after over 19 km had been deployed, losing the satellite but still returning valuable science data.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 12.2 T
- Flight
- 75th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 22 February 1996, 20:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- International designator
- 1996-012
- Launches in 1996
- 13th of 77
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