Mission record
Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-61-A
Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Lockheed Space Operations Company
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
LEO
Mission type
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Wed, 30 Oct 1985 17:00:00 GMT
Orbital launch #
#3012 ever
Mission
STS-61-A was the twenty-second space shuttle flight and ninth for Space Shuttle Challenger. It was a scientific spacelab mission funded entirely by West Germany. The payload operations were controlled from the German Space Operations Center as opposed to the regular NASA centers.