Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
United Space Alliance
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
LEO
Mission type
Human Exploration
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:45:30 GMT
Orbital launch #
#4890 ever
Mission
STS-122 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS), flown by the Space Shuttle Atlantis. STS-122 marked the 24th shuttle mission to the ISS, and the 121st space shuttle flight overall. The mission was also referred to as ISS-1E by the ISS program. The primary objective of STS-122 was to deliver the European Columbus science laboratory, built by the European Space Agency (ESA), to the station. It also returned Expedition 16 Flight Engineer Daniel M. Tani to Earth. Tani was replaced on Expedition 16 by Léopold Eyharts, a French Flight Engineer representing ESA. After Atlantis' landing, the orbiter was prepared for STS-125, the final servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope.