Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
14:03:53
Wednesday March 22, 2006
Space Technology 5 (ST5) of the NASA New Millennium program is a test of ten new technologies aboard a group of microsatellites.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
25 kilograms
Agency
NorthropPrice
$40.00 million
Rocket
Height: 17.6m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 443 kg
Liftoff Thrust
561 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 1.15m
Height: 2.13m
Stages
4
37th
Mission
1st
Mission of 2006
8th
Orbital launch attempt