LSOC Space Shuttle STS-31 (Hubble)
Space Shuttle
Status
Success
Date
24 APR 1990
12:33
Launch Provider
Lockheed Space Operations Company
Launch Pad
Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Mission Overview
STS-31 was the thirty-fifth mission of the space shuttle program. Discovery's tenth mission deployed the Hubble Space Telescope.
Rocket
Space Shuttle
Mission Type
Astrophysics
Orbit
Low Earth Orbit
Stages
2
Livestream
Rocket Details
The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS). Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011.
Height
56.1 m
Diameter
8 m
Launch Mass
2,030 T
Thrust
28,200 kN