STS-41-D
Sign in to saveSTS-41-D (formerly STS-14) was the 12th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the maiden flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 30, 1984, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on September 5, 1984. Three commercial communications satellites were deployed into orbit during the six-day mission, and a number of scientific experiments were conducted, including a prototype extendable solar array that would eventually form the basis of the main solar arrays on the International Space Station (ISS).
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-41-D
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Space Transportation System-12
- Spaceflight.image
- STS41D-01-021.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_upright
- yes
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- The experimental OAST-1 solar array in flight
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Satellites deployment
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 97
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 6
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC (8:41:50amEDT)
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39A
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- Rockwell International
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- UTC (6:37:54amPDT)
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Edwards, Runway17
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_regime
- Low Earth orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_inclination
- 28.50°
- Spaceflight.orbit_period
- 90.60 minutes
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human spaceflight
- Part of
- Space Shuttle program
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- STS-41-G
- Follows
- STS-41-C
- Duration
- 521764
- Mass
- 18681
- Orbital period
- 90.6
- Image
- STS-41-D launch August 30, 1984.jpg
- Significant event
- landing
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- crew members
- Judith Resnik
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- Commons category
- STS-41-D
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1984-08-30
- vessel
- Discovery
- location of landing
- Edwards Air Force Base
- orbits completed
- 97
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1984-09-05
- Commons gallery
- STS-41-D
- orbital inclination
- 28.5
- periapsis
- 346
- apoapsis
- 354
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
- archives at
- Lunar and Planetary Institute
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission background
- June 1984 launch attempt
- Mission summary
- Launch attempts
- Mission insignia
- Wake-up calls
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-41-D (formerly STS-14) was the 12th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the maiden flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 30, 1984, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on September 5, 1984. Three commercial communications satellites were deployed into orbit during the six-day mission, and a number of scientific experiments were conducted, including a prototype extendable solar array that would eventually form the basis of the main solar arrays on the International Space Station (ISS).
The mission was delayed by more than two months from its original planned launch date, having experienced the Space Shuttle program's first launch abort at T−4 seconds on June 26, 1984.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “STS-41-D” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.