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Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-51-G
Space Shuttle
Jun 17, 1985, 11:33 AM UTC
Jun 17, 1985, 11:33 AM UTC
Mission Elapsed Time
T-00:00:00
Mission Details
STS-51-G was the eighteenth flight of the shuttle program and fifth for Space Shuttle Discovery. Sultan Salman Al Saud of Saudi Arabia was on board as a payload specialist; he became the first Arab, the first Muslim and first member of a royal family to fly into space. It was the first shuttle flight to fly without an astronaut from the pre-Shuttle era. Its mission was to deploy 3 10 satellites.
- Type
- Communications
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
- Programs
- Space Shuttle
Launch Site
- Pad
- Launch Complex 39A
- Location
- Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Country
- 🇺🇸 USA
Weather at Launch
- Temp
- 25.4°C
- Wind
- 13 km/h @ 211°
- Sky
- Partly cloudy
- Source
- open-meteo-archive