STS-85 launched Space Shuttle Discovery carrying the CRISTA-SPAS-2 free-flying payload, which used telescopes and spectrometers to study the chemistry and dynamics of Earth's middle atmosphere during roughly nine days of independent flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 15.5 T
- Flight
- 86th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 7 August 1997, 14:41 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1997-039
- Launches in 1997
- 41st of 89
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
View satellites in Space Atlas