STS-41-D
Sign in to saveSTS-41-D (formerly STS-14) was the 12th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the maiden flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 30, 1984, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on September 5, 1984. Three commercial communications satellites were deployed into orbit during the six-day mission, and a number of scientific experiments were conducted, including a prototype extendable solar array that would eventually form the basis of the main solar arrays on the International Space Station (ISS).
Key facts
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- STS-41-D
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- Space Transportation System-12
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- STS41D-01-021.jpg
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- yes
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- The experimental OAST-1 solar array in flight
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- Satellites deployment
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- NASA
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- 97
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- 6
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- UTC (8:41:50amEDT)
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- Kennedy, LC-39A
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- Rockwell International
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- UTC (6:37:54amPDT)
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Edwards, Runway17
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- Geocentric orbit
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- Low Earth orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_inclination
- 28.50°
- Spaceflight.orbit_period
- 90.60 minutes
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission background
- June 1984 launch attempt
- Mission summary
- Launch attempts
- Mission insignia
- Wake-up calls
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-41-D (formerly STS-14) was the 12th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the maiden flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 30, 1984, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on September 5, 1984. Three commercial communications satellites were deployed into orbit during the six-day mission, and a number of scientific experiments were conducted, including a prototype extendable solar array that would eventually form the basis of the main solar arrays on the International Space Station (ISS).
The mission was delayed by more than two months from its original planned launch date, having experienced the Space Shuttle program's first launch abort at T−4 seconds on June 26, 1984.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “STS-41-D” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.