STS-51
Sign in to saveSTS-51 was a NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission that launched the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) in September 1993. Discovery's 17th flight also featured the deployment and retrieval of the SPAS-ORFEUS satellite and its IMAX camera, which captured spectacular footage of Discovery in space. A spacewalk was also performed during the mission to evaluate tools and techniques for the STS-61 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission later that year. STS-51 was the first shuttle mission to fly a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, a Trimble TANS Quadrex. It was mount
Key facts
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39B
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-51
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Space Transportation System-51
- Spaceflight.image
- 1993 s51 IMAX view of Discovery from Spas.JPG
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- IMAX photography of Discovery in orbit, viewed from the free-flying SPAS-ORFEUS astronomy platform
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) satellite deploymentAstronomy
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 9 days, 20 hours, 11 minutes, 6 seconds (achieved)
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 157
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- September 12, 1993, 11:45:00 UTC
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- Rockwell International
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- September 22, 1993, 07:56:06UTC
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Kennedy, SLF Runway 15
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 5
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_regime
- Low Earth orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_inclination
- 28.45°
- Spaceflight.orbit_period
- 90.60 minutes
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Article
13 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Launch Preparations
- Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS)
- SPAS-ORFEUS
- Extravehicular activity (EVA)
- Spacewalk
- Secondary experiments
- Mission insignia
- Documentary
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-51 was a NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission that launched the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) in September 1993. Discovery's 17th flight also featured the deployment and retrieval of the SPAS-ORFEUS satellite and its IMAX camera, which captured spectacular footage of Discovery in space. A spacewalk was also performed during the mission to evaluate tools and techniques for the STS-61 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission later that year. STS-51 was the first shuttle mission to fly a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, a Trimble TANS Quadrex. It was mounted in an overhead window where limited field of view (FoV) and signal attenuation from the glass severely impacted receiver performance. Full triple-redundant 3-string GPS would not happen until 14 years later with STS-118 in 2007.
== Crew ==