STS-28
Sign in to saveSTS-28 was the 30th NASA Space Shuttle mission, the fourth shuttle mission dedicated to United States Department of Defense (DoD) purposes, and the eighth flight of Space Shuttle Columbia. The mission launched on August 8, 1989, and traveled during 81 orbits of the Earth, before landing on runway 17 of Edwards Air Force Base, California, on August 13, 1989. STS-28 was also Columbias first flight since January 1986, when it had flown STS-61-C, the mission directly preceding the Challenger disaster of STS-51-L. The mission details of STS-28 are classified, but the payload is widely believed to h
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-28
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Space Transportation System-28STS-28R
- Spaceflight.image
- SILTS Image.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Infrared view of Columbias left wing during reentry, photographed by the SILTS experiment.
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- DoD satellites deployment
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 81
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 5
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC (8:37amEDT)
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39B
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- Rockwell International
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- UTC (6:37:08amPDT)
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Edwards, Runway17
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_regime
- Low Earth orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_inclination
- 57.00°
- Spaceflight.orbit_period
- 90.50 minutes
- Spaceflight.apsis
- gee
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Official website
STS-28 - NASA
STS-28 was dedicated to the Department of Defense, and first flight of Columbia since Mission 61-C.
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 435608
- Mass
- 19600
- Orbital period
- 90.5
- Image
- 1989 s28 Liftoff.jpg
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- STS-28
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1989-08-08
- orbits completed
- 81
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1989-08-13
- Commons gallery
- STS-28
- orbital inclination
- 57.0
- periapsis
- 289
- apoapsis
- 306
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STS-28 was the 30th NASA Space Shuttle mission, the fourth shuttle mission dedicated to United States Department of Defense (DoD) purposes, and the eighth flight of Space Shuttle Columbia. The mission launched on August 8, 1989, and traveled during 81 orbits of the Earth, before landing on runway 17 of Edwards Air Force Base, California, on August 13, 1989. STS-28 was also Columbias first flight since January 1986, when it had flown STS-61-C, the mission directly preceding the Challenger disaster of STS-51-L. The mission details of STS-28 are classified, but the payload is widely believed to have been the first SDS-2 relay communications satellite. The altitude of the mission was between and .
The mission was officially designated STS-28R as the original STS-28 designator belonged to STS-51-J, the 21st Space Shuttle mission. Official documentation for that mission contained the designator STS-28 throughout. As STS-51-L was designated STS-33, future flights with the STS-26 through STS-33 designators would require the R in their documentation to avoid conflicts in tracking data from one mission to another.