STS-31
Sign in to saveSTS-31 was the 35th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the tenth flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery. The primary purpose of this mission was the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) into low Earth orbit. Discovery lifted off from Launch Complex 39B on April 24, 1990, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-31
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Space Transportation System-31STS-31R
- Spaceflight.image
- 1990 s31 IMAX view of HST release.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Discovery deploys the Hubble Space Telescope.
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Hubble Space Telescope deployment
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 80
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 5
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC (8:33:51amEDT)
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39B
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- Rockwell International
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- UTC (6:49:57amPDT)
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Edwards, Runway22
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_regime
- Low Earth orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_inclination
- 28.45°
- Spaceflight.orbit_period
- 96.70 minutes
- Spaceflight.apsis
- gee
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human spaceflight
- Part of
- Space Shuttle program
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- STS-41
- Follows
- STS-36
- Duration
- 436566
- Mass
- 11878
- Orbital period
- 96.7
- Image
- 1990 s31 IMAX view of HST release.jpg
- Significant event
- landing
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- crew members
- Bruce McCandless II
- Commons category
- STS-31
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1990-04-24
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- vessel
- Discovery
- location of landing
- Edwards Air Force Base
- orbits completed
- 80
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1990-04-29
- Commons gallery
- STS-31
- orbital inclination
- 28.45
- periapsis
- 585
- apoapsis
- 615
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
- archives at
- Lunar and Planetary Institute
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Crew notes
- Mission highlights
- Wake-up calls
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-31 was the 35th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the tenth flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery. The primary purpose of this mission was the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) into low Earth orbit. Discovery lifted off from Launch Complex 39B on April 24, 1990, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Following the Challenger accident clarification was required on mission numbering. As STS-51-L was also designated STS-33, future flights with the previous STS-26 through STS-33 designators would require the R in their documentation to avoid conflicts in tracking data from one mission to another.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “STS-31” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.