STS-119
Sign in to saveSTS-119 (ISS assembly flight 15A) was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which was flown by Space Shuttle Discovery during March 2009. It was Discovery's 36th flight. It delivered and assembled the fourth starboard Integrated Truss Segment (S6), and the fourth set of solar arrays and batteries to the station. The launch took place on March 15, 2009, at 19:43 EDT. Discovery successfully landed on March 28, 2009, at 15:13 pm EDT.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-119
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Space Transportation System-119
- Spaceflight.image
- STS-119 International Space Station after undocking with earth atmosphere backdrop.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Departing view of the ISS from Discovery, with the station's fourth and final set of solar arrays installed
- Spaceflight.insignia
- STS-119 Patch.svg
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- ISS assembly
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 202
- Spaceflight.distance_travelled
- 8,609,790km (5,349,419 miles)
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 12days, 19hours, 29minutes, 33seconds
- Spaceflight.payload_mass
- 29,693kg (65,461lb)
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39A
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Kennedy, SLF Runway 15
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 7
- Spaceflight.crew_photo
- Sts119 crew portrait.jpg
- Spaceflight.crew_photo_caption
- Front row (L–R) Antonelli, Archambault. Back row (L–R) Acaba, Phillips, Swanson, Arnold and Wakata.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human spaceflight
- Part of
- Space Shuttle program
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- STS-125
- Follows
- STS-126
- Duration
- 1106973
- Mass
- 91166
- Orbital period
- 91.6
- Image
- STS-119 RPM.jpg
- Significant event
- landing
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- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- orbital inclination
- 51.6
- vessel
- Discovery
- location of landing
- Launch and Landing Facility
- Commons category
- STS-119
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2009-03-15
- orbits completed
- 202
- Commons gallery
- STS-119
- crew members
- Joseph M. Acaba
- periapsis
- 402
- apoapsis
- 385
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 2009-03-28
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Encyclopedic overview
28 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Crew notes
- Mission payload
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission background
- Shuttle processing
- Mission timeline
- March 15 (Flight day 1, Launch)
- Bat stowaway
- March 16 (Flight day 2)
- March 17 (Flight day 3)
- March 18 (Flight day 4)
- March 19 (Flight day 5, Spacewalk 1)
- March 20 (Flight day 6)
- March 21 (Flight day 7, Spacewalk 2)
- March 22 (Flight day 8)
- March 23 (Flight day 9, Spacewalk 3)
- March 24 (Flight day 10)
- March 25 (Flight day 11, Undocking)
- March 26 (Flight day 12)
- March 27 (Flight day 13)
- March 28 (Flight day 14, Landing)
- Extra-vehicular activity
- Wake-up calls
- Media
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-119 (ISS assembly flight 15A) was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which was flown by Space Shuttle Discovery during March 2009. It was Discovery's 36th flight. It delivered and assembled the fourth starboard Integrated Truss Segment (S6), and the fourth set of solar arrays and batteries to the station. The launch took place on March 15, 2009, at 19:43 EDT. Discovery successfully landed on March 28, 2009, at 15:13 pm EDT.
==Crew==
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