STS-45
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STS-45 was a 1992 NASA Space Shuttle mission using the . Its almost nine-day scientific mission was with a non-deployable payload of instruments. It was the 46th Space Shuttle mission and the 11th for Atlantis.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-45
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Space Transportation System-45
- Spaceflight.image
- STS-45 payload.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Components of the ATLAS-1 laboratory in the payload bay of Atlantis
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- ATLAS-1 astronomy research
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 143
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 7
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC (8:13:39amEST)
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39A
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- Rockwell International
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- UTC (6:23:06amEST)
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Kennedy, SLF Runway 33
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_regime
- Low Earth orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_inclination
- 57.00°
- Spaceflight.orbit_period
- 90.30 minutes
- Spaceflight.apsis
- gee
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human spaceflight
- Part of
- Space Shuttle program
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- STS-49
- Follows
- STS-42
- Duration
- 770968
- Mass
- 9947
- Orbital period
- 90.3
- Image
- STS-45 payload.jpg
- Significant event
- landing
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- Commons category
- STS-45
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1992-03-24
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- crew members
- Byron K. Lichtenberg
- vessel
- Atlantis
- location of landing
- Launch and Landing Facility
- orbits completed
- 143
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1992-04-02
- Commons gallery
- STS-45
- orbital inclination
- 57.0
- periapsis
- 282
- apoapsis
- 294
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
- archives at
- Lunar and Planetary Institute
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission highlights
- Mission insignia
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-45 was a 1992 NASA Space Shuttle mission using the . Its almost nine-day scientific mission was with a non-deployable payload of instruments. It was the 46th Space Shuttle mission and the 11th for Atlantis.
== Crew ==
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