Status
Success
Rocket
Vehicles
Mission Details
STS-100
The highest priority objectives of the flight were the installation, activation and checkout of the Canadarm2 robotic arm on the station. The arm, which went into operation on April 28, 2001, was critical to the capability to continue assembly of the International Space Station.[3] The arm was also necessary to attach a new airlock to the station on the subsequent shuttle flight, mission STS-104. A final component of the Canadarm is the Mobile Base System (MBS), installed on board the station during the STS-111 flight.
Total Mass: 4,899.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit
Location
LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
Stats
2001
16th orbital launch attempt
Space Shuttle
104th mission
3rd mission of 2001
103rd successful mission
79th consecutive successful mission