LAUNCH CENTER
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Success
Thu Dec 02 1993
Lockheed Space Operations Company
STS-61
Launch Successful
LAUNCH PREVIEW
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(9:27 AM UTC)
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(9:27 AM UTC)
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(9:27 AM UTC)
RECOVERY OVERVIEW
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Rocket Details
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MISSION OVERVIEW
- Type: Astrophysics
- STS-61 was the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission launched on 2 December 1993 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission restored the spaceborne observatory's vision, marred by spherical aberration, with the installation of a new main camera and a corrective optics package. This correction occurred more than three and a half years after the Hubble was launched aboard STS-31 in April 1990. The flight also brought instrument upgrades and new solar arrays to the telescope.
COMPLEX OVERVIEW
Location
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Pad
Launch Complex 39B