Launch Alert | Flight 7
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Success
Thu Oct 03 1985
Lockheed Space Operations Company

STS-51-J

Launch Successful
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RECOVERY OVERVIEW

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Rocket Details

Name:

Space Shuttle

Description:

Space Shuttle rocket
MISSION OVERVIEW
  • Type: Government/Top Secret
  • STS-51-J was the twenty-first space shuttle mission and the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. It was the second mission dedicated to deploying a Department of Defence payload. It was a classified mission however we do know that it deployed two 10 satellites.
COMPLEX OVERVIEW

Location

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Pad

Launch Complex 39A