LAUNCHER INFO

Space Shuttle Discovery is one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built. Its first mission, STS-41-D, flew from August 30 to September 5, 1984. Over 27 years of service it launched and landed 39 times, gathering more spaceflights than any other spacecraft to date.

MANUFACTURER INFO

United Space Alliance

LAUNCHER SPECIFICATIONS

(diameter)

8.4 m

TO GTO

0 kg

(length)

38.1 m

TO LEO

24400 kg

(reusable)

true

LAUNCH STATISTICS