Status
Success
Rocket
Vehicles
Mission Details
STS-61
STS-61 was the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission. The mission restored the spaceborne observatory's vision, marred by spherical aberration, with the installation of a new main camera and a corrective optics package. This correction occurred more than three and a half years after the Hubble was launched aboard STS-31 in April 1990. The flight also brought instrument upgrades and new solar arrays to the telescope. With its very heavy workload, the STS-61 mission was one of the most complex in the Shuttle's history. It lasted almost 11 days, and crew members made five spacewalks (EVAs), an all-time record.
Total Mass: 10,949.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit
Location
LC-39B, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
Stats
1993
80th orbital launch attempt
Space Shuttle
59th mission
7th mission of 1993
58th successful mission
34th consecutive successful mission