STS-51

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STS-51 was a NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission in 1993 that deployed the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite and conducted various scientific experiments in orbit.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf NASA spaceflight
Space Shuttle mission
commander Frank L. Culbertson Jr. NERFINISHED
conductedExperiment life sciences experiments
materials science experiments
microgravity science experiments
crewSize 5
deployed ACTS NERFINISHED
Advanced Communications Technology Satellite NERFINISHED
ORFEUS-SPAS NERFINISHED
EVA spacewalk to evaluate EVA tools and techniques
EVAcount 1
EVAPerformed yes
followedBy STS-58 NERFINISHED
landingDate 1993-09-22
landingSite Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility NERFINISHED
launchDate 1993-09-12
launchPad Launch Complex 39B NERFINISHED
launchSite Kennedy Space Center NERFINISHED
missionDuration 9 days
about 236 hours
missionSpecialist Carl E. Walz NERFINISHED
Daniel W. Bursch NERFINISHED
James H. Newman NERFINISHED
missionType microgravity research
satellite deployment
technology demonstration
operator NASA
orbitApogee approximately 306 km
orbitInclination 28.45 degrees
orbitPerigee approximately 296 km
orbitPeriod about 90 minutes
payload ACTS NERFINISHED
GAS experiments
Get Away Special canisters NERFINISHED
Middeck experiments
ORFEUS-SPAS NERFINISHED
Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer NERFINISHED
SPAS NERFINISHED
Shuttle Pallet Satellite NERFINISHED
pilot William F. Readdy NERFINISHED
precededBy STS-57 NERFINISHED
primaryPayload Advanced Communications Technology Satellite NERFINISHED
retrieved ORFEUS-SPAS NERFINISHED
spaceAgency NASA
spacecraft OV-103 NERFINISHED
spaceShuttle Space Shuttle Discovery NERFINISHED
spaceShuttleProgram Space Shuttle program NERFINISHED
vehicleFlightNumber Discovery flight 17 NERFINISHED
yearOfFlight 1993

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STS-58 precededBy STS-51