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STS-41-C post flight presentation, narrated by the astronauts (19 minutes). STS-41-C launched successfully at 8:58 a.m. EST on April 6, 1984. The mission marked the first direct ascent trajectory for the Space Shuttle; Challenger reached its 533 km (331 mi) - high orbit using its Orbiter Maneuvering System (OMS) engines only once, to ...
STS-41 launches from Kennedy Space Center, on October 6, 1990. Ulysses after deployment. Discovery lifted off on October 6 1990 at 7:47:16 a.m. EDT. Liftoff occurred 12 minutes after a two-and-a-half-hour launch window opened that day at 7:35 a.m. EDT. STS-41 featured the heaviest payload to date; Discovery weighed 117,749 kg (259,592 lb). [2]
It was first tested on February 7 during mission STS-41-B by astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart. Two months later, during mission STS-41-C , astronauts James van Hoften and George Nelson attempted to use the MMU to capture the Solar Maximum Mission satellite and to bring it into the orbiter's payload bay for repairs and servicing.
STS-41-B EVA 2 Bruce McCandless Robert Stewart: 9 February 1984 10:24 9 February 1984 16:41 6 h 17 min McCandless and Stewart continued testing the MMUs. They also continued practice with tools and procedures to be used with recovery and repair of the SMM satellite. [59] 50. STS-41-C EVA 1 George Nelson James van Hoften: April 8, 1984 14:18 ...
The codes were adopted from STS-41-B through STS-51-L (although the highest code used was actually STS-61-C), and the sequential numbers were used internally at NASA on all processing paperwork. After the Challenger disaster, NASA returned to using a sequential numbering system, with the number counting from the beginning of the STS program ...
Other shuttle missions are interspersed during the feature with the STS-41-C footage. Highlights include: STS-41-D: The first launch of Discovery, with footage of liftoff, the deployment of two of the three satellites on this mission, and special attention given to the novelty of the experimental OAST-1 solar array, which was a precursor to the ...
It had been launched by the STS-41-C mission on April 7, 1984, and by January 1990 its orbit had decayed to about 175 nautical miles (324 km) and it was only a month or so away from re-entering the atmosphere and burning up. [23] The STS-32 mission lifted off from the KSC in the Space Shuttle Columbia on January 9, 1990. [24]
ERBS was launched on October 5, 1984, by the Space Shuttle Challenger during the STS-41-G mission and deactivated on October 14, 2005. [4] It re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on January 8, 2023, over the Bering Sea near the Aleutian Islands. [5] [6] NASA's CERES instruments have continued the ERB data record after 1997.