Names | Space Transportation System |
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Mission type | Galileo spacecraft deployment |
Operator | NASA |
Mission duration | 4 days, 1 hour, 11 minutes (planned) |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Atlantis (planned) |
Launch mass | 116,831 kg (257,568 lb) |
Landing mass | 88,881 kg (195,949 lb) |
Payload mass | 22,064 kg (48,643 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 4 (planned) |
Members | David M. Walker Ronald J. Grabe Norman E. Thagard James D. A. "OX" van Hoften |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 20 May 1986, 20:21:00 UTC (planned) - Never launched |
Rocket | Space Shuttle Atlantis |
Launch site | Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A |
Contractor | Rockwell International |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 24 May 1986, 21:32:00 UTC (planned) |
Landing site | Kennedy Space Center |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit (planned) |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Perigee altitude | 298 km (185 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 307 km (191 mi) |
Inclination | 34.30° |
Period | 90.60 minutes |
STS-61-G mission patch David M. Walker, Ronald J. Grabe, Norman E. Thagard, James D. A. "OX" van Hoften Cancelled Shuttle missions |
STS-61-G was a NASA Space Shuttle mission planned to launch on 20 May 1986, using Atlantis. The main objective of this mission was to launch the Galileo spacecraft toward Jupiter using the Centaur-G upper stage. It was canceled after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.