Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-61

Name: Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-61
Start: 1993-12-02T09:27:00.000Z
Location: Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Lockheed Space Operations Company · Space Shuttle · Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Lockheed Space Operations Company's 50th launch · 7th this year · humanity's 3,864th orbital launch attempt

December 2, 1993Add to calendar

Success

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

Window: Dec 2, 09:27 – Dec 2, 09:27 UTC

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STS-61

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.

Astrophysics · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)