Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
09:31:00 AM
Tuesday November 1, 1994
Watch Replay
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Wind was deployed to study radio waves and plasma that occur in the solar wind and in the Earth's magnetosphere. The spacecraft's original mission was to orbit the Sun at the L1 Lagrangian point, but this was delayed to study the magnetosphere and near lunar environment when the SOHO and ACE spacecraft were sent to the same location.
Heliocentric Orbit
1 Payload
1,195 kilograms
Agency
BoeingRocket
Height: 38.9m
Payload to Orbit
GTO: 1,730 kg
Liftoff Thrust
3,511 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 3m
Height: 8.9m
Stages
3
Strap-ons
9
41st
Mission
3rd
Mission of 1994
74th
Orbital launch attempt