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  2. Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System ( TDRSS, pronounced "T-driss") is a network of American communications satellites (each called a tracking and data relay satellite, TDRS) and ground stations used by NASA for space communications. The system was designed to replace an existing network of ground stations that had supported all of ...

  3. Martin Marietta Spacemaster - Wikipedia

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    LH2 / LOX. [ edit on Wikidata] The Martin Marietta Spacemaster was a proposed configuration for what became the Space Shuttle, which featured an X-24 -derived orbiter, and an unusual " catamaran style" booster stage. During launch and ascent, the orbiter would be located in a recess in the booster. The booster's 14 engines would be located in ...

  4. STS-41-B - Wikipedia

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    STS-41-C (11) →. STS-41-B was NASA 's tenth Space Shuttle mission and the fourth flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It launched on February 3, 1984 and landed on February 11, 1984, after deploying two communications satellites. It was also notable for including the first untethered spacewalk . Following STS-9, the flight numbering system ...

  5. List of Space Shuttle missions - Wikipedia

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    Launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on 12 April 1981 at Pad 39A for mission STS-1. The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable ...

  6. STS-49 - Wikipedia

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    STS-50 (48) →. STS-49 was NASA 's maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which launched on May 7, 1992. The primary goal of its nine-day mission was to retrieve an Intelsat VI satellite, Intelsat 603, which failed to leave Low Earth orbit two years before, attach it to a new upper stage, and relaunch it to its intended geosynchronous ...

  7. Shuttle pallet satellite - Wikipedia

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    The shuttle pallet satellite was a satellite bus designed to be deployed and then retrieved for return to Earth on NASA's Space Shuttle. It carried a variety of payloads both scientific and military in nature. It was made by Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm and first flew in 1983. It was carried for the first time during the STS-7 mission and called ...

  8. STS-51-A - Wikipedia

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    STS-51-A (formerly STS-19) was the 14th flight of NASA 's Space Shuttle program, and the second flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center on November 8, 1984, and landed just under eight days later on November 16, 1984. STS-51-A marked the first time a shuttle deployed two communications satellites, and ...

  9. STS-61 - Wikipedia

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    STS-60 (60) →. STS-61 was NASA 's first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission launched on December 2, 1993, from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. The mission restored the spaceborne observatory's vision (marred by spherical aberration in its mirror) with the ...

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