STS-85
Sign in to saveSTS-85 was the 23rd flight of Space Shuttle Discovery that performed multiple space science packages. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 7 August 1997. The main STS-85 payloads included the satellite known as Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere-Shuttle Pallet Satellite-2 CRISTA-SPAS-02.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-85
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Space Transportation System-85
- Spaceflight.image
- Crista-spas launch.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- The CRISTA-SPAS experiment in its ninth and final day of free flight in proximity to Discovery
- Spaceflight.insignia
- Sts-85-patch.png
- Spaceflight.insignia_caption
- STS-85 mission patch
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Research
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 185
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 11 days, 20 hours, 28 minutes, 7 seconds
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39A
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Kennedy, SLF Runway 33
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 6
- Spaceflight.crew_photo
- STS-85_crew.jpg
- Spaceflight.crew_photo_caption
- Left to right – Seated: Rominger, Brown; Standing: Curbeam, Robinson, Davis, Tryggvason
- Spaceflight.apsis
- gee
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human spaceflight
- Part of
- Space Shuttle program
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- STS-86
- Follows
- STS-94
- Duration
- 1019927
- Mass
- 9191
- Orbital period
- 89.6
- Image
- STS-85 launch.jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- Commons category
- STS-85
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1997-08-07
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- crew members
- Bjarni Tryggvason
- vessel
- Discovery
- location of landing
- Launch and Landing Facility
- orbits completed
- 185
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1997-08-19
- Commons gallery
- STS-85
- orbital inclination
- 51.6
- periapsis
- 249
- apoapsis
- 261
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
- archives at
- Lunar and Planetary Institute
Sources (4)
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission highlights
- Media
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-85 was the 23rd flight of Space Shuttle Discovery that performed multiple space science packages. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 7 August 1997. The main STS-85 payloads included the satellite known as Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere-Shuttle Pallet Satellite-2 CRISTA-SPAS-02.
==Crew==
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