List of articles in "Satellite" category - Page 165

STS-72 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission to capture and return to Earth a Japanese microgravity research spacecraft known as Space Flyer Unit (SFU). The mission launched from Kennedy Space […]

STS-74 was a Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to the Mir space station. It was the fourth mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program and it carried out the second docking of […]

STS-73 was a Space Shuttle program mission during October–November 1995. The mission was the second mission for the United States Microgravity Laboratory. The crew who spent 16 days in space […]

STS-69 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission and the second flight of the Wake Shield Facility (WSF). The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center Florida on 7 September 1995.

STS-70 was the 21st flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery and the last of 7 shuttle missions to carry a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS). This was the first […]

STS-71 was the third mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program which carried out the first Space Shuttle docking to Mir a Russian space station. The mission used Space Shuttle Atlantis […]

STS-67 was a human spaceflight mission using Space Shuttle Endeavour that launched from Kennedy Space Center Florida on 2 March 1995.

STS-63 was the second mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program which carried out the first rendezvous of the American Space Shuttle with Russia’s space station Mir. Known as the ‘Near-Mir’ […]

STS-66 was a Space Shuttle program mission that was flown by the Space Shuttle Atlantis. STS-66 launched on 3 November 1994 at 11:59:43.060 am EDT from Launch Pad 39-B at […]

Uhuru was the first satellite launched specifically for the purpose of X-ray astronomy. It was also known as the X-ray Explorer Satellite SAS-A (for Small Astronomy Satellite A being first […]