STS-48 - space shuttle flight MTKK Discovery under the Space Shuttle program (43rd flight program and 13th Discovery flight), the purpose of which was to put into geostationary orbit using the Canadian manipulator, the UARS satellite (weighing ~ 6600 kg) for the study of the upper atmosphere: studies of the ozone layer of the Earth. Experiments were conducted to study the development of muscle mass under zero gravity in 8 thirty-day-old female rats .
| STS-48 | |
|---|---|
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| General information | |
| Organization | |
| Ship flight data | |
| Ship name | Discovery |
| Shuttle Flight No. | 43 |
| Discovery Flight No. | 13 |
| Launch pad | KC Kennedy , SP 39-A [1] |
| Launch | September 12, 1991, 11:11:04 UTC (September 13, at 02:11 Moscow time) |
| Landing ship | September 18, 1991, 7:38:42 UTC |
| Landing place | KC Kennedy (lane 22) |
| Flight duration | 5 days 8 hours 27 minutes 38 seconds |
| Number of turns | 81 |
| Distance traveled | 3,530,369 km |
| Orbit height | 561 km |
| Mood | 57 ° |
| Circulation period | 96.2 min |
| NSSDC ID | 1991-063A |
| SCN | 21700 |
| Crew flight data | |
| Crew members | five |
| Crew photo | |
 (left to right): Mark Brown, Charles Gemar, John Creighton, James Buchley, Kenneth Reitler. | |
| Associated Expeditions | |
The flight of the STS-48 mission opens NASA ’s fifteen-year mission “Planet Earth Mission”, which spent about $ 17 billion [2]
Crew
(NASA): John Oliver Creighton (3) [3] - commander;- (NASA): Kenneth Stanley Reightler (Jr) (1) - pilot;
- (NASA): James Frederick Buchli (4) - Flight Program Specialist 1;
- (NASA): Charles Donald “Sam” Gemar (2) - flight program specialist 2;
- (NASA): Mark Neil Brown (2) - Flight Program Specialist 3.
(NASA): John Oliver Creighton (3) Flight Options
- The mass of the device at launch is 87 321 kg ;
- Payload - 7 865 kg ;
- Orbital inclination - 57.0 °;
- The circulation period is 96.2 minutes ;
- Perigee - 575 km;
- Apogee - 580 km.
Gallery
Shuttle launch “Atlantis”
UARS satellite in the cargo compartment of the shuttle
UARS held by Canadian Remote Control until deployed
Notes
- ↑ SP - launch pad No. 39-A (mobile launch platform ( English Mobile Launcher Platform ) MLP-3).
- ↑ USA. The 13th Discovery flight under the STS-48 program. , Cosmonautics News (September 1991). Archived on May 2, 2008.
- ↑ (3) - the number in brackets shows the number of completed space flights, including this one, which this crew member has already completed.
Links
- Description of the mission on the NASA website . Archived on May 16, 2012.
- Video about the flight . Archived on May 16, 2012.