STS-49
1992 American crewed spaceflight to Intelsat 603 and maiden flight of Shuttle Endeavour / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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STS-49 was NASA's maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which launched on May 7, 1992. The primary goal of its nine-day mission was to retrieve an Intelsat VI satellite, Intelsat 603, which failed to leave Low Earth orbit two years before, attach it to a new upper stage, and relaunch it to its intended geosynchronous orbit. After several attempts, the capture was completed with the only three-person extravehicular activity (EVA) in space flight history.[4] It would also stand until STS-102 in 2001 as the longest EVA ever undertaken.
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Names | Space Transportation System-49 |
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Mission type | Intelsat-603 satellite repair |
Operator | NASA |
COSPAR ID | 1992-026A |
SATCAT no. | 21963 |
Mission duration | 8 days, 21 hours, 17 minutes, 38 seconds |
Distance travelled | 5,948,166 km (3,696,019 mi) |
Orbits completed | 141 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Endeavour |
Launch mass | 116,390 kg (256,600 lb) [1] |
Landing mass | 91,279 kg (201,236 lb) |
Payload mass | 16,984 kg (37,443 lb) [2] |
Crew | |
Crew size | 7 |
Members | |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | May 7, 1992, 23:40:00 UTC |
Rocket | Space Shuttle Endeavour |
Launch site | Kennedy Space Center, LC-39B |
Contractor | Rockwell International |
End of mission | |
Landing date | May 16, 1992, 20:57:38 UTC[3] |
Landing site | Edwards Air Force Base, Runway 22 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Perigee altitude | 268 km (167 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 341 km (212 mi) |
Inclination | 28.32° |
Period | 90.60 minutes |
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STS-49 mission patch Thornton, Melnick, Thuot, Brandenstein, Chilton, Akers, Hieb |
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