NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

STS-95

Launch Time
Thu Oct 29, 1998 19:19 UTC

Rocket

Space Shuttle Discovery
NASA
Status: Retired
Price: $450.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 30,250 kN
Payload to LEO: 27,500 kg
Payload to GTO: 3,810 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 2
Rocket Height: 56.1 m

Vehicles

Kennedy SLF Runway 33

OV-103

Flight #25
149 day turnaround

Mission Details

STS-95

The primary objectives included conducting a variety of science experiments in the pressurized Spacehab module, the deployment and retrieval of the Spartan free-flyer payload, and operations with the HST Orbital Systems Test (HOST) and the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker (IEH) payloads carried in the payload bay.

Total Mass: 24,540.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

LC-39B, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Stats

1998

69th orbital launch attempt

Space Shuttle

92nd mission
4th mission of 1998
91st successful mission
67th consecutive successful mission