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STS-61-B
Space Shuttle · Communications
1985Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center
Mission
STS-61-B was the twenty-third space shuttle mission and the second for the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The shuttle was launched for Kennedy Space Center and the shuttle deployed three communicates satellites. It also tested techniques for constructing structures in orbit. This mission marked the quickest turnaround of a shuttle, just 54 days elapsed beetween this launch and Atlantis' previous mission.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- LSOC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Orbit
- LEO
- Pad
- Launch Complex 39A
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2