Space Shuttle Columbia OV-102 | STS-93
Launch information
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STS-93 marked the 95th launch of the Space Shuttle, the 26th launch of Columbia, and the 21st night launch of a Space Shuttle. Eileen Collins became the first female shuttle Commander on this flight. Its primary payload was the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Launch status
Launch status information for space mission ‘Space Shuttle Columbia OV-102 | STS-93’.
Success
Status: Launch Successful
Class: normal
Launch T0: July 23, 1999, 4:31 a.m.
Timezone: America/New_York
Launch authority
Details about the the rocket, its target orbit and the launch pad location.
Mission |
STS-93 (LEO) |
|---|---|
Launcher |
United Space Alliance |
Rocket |
Space Shuttle |
Location |
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA |
Pad |
Launch Complex 39B |
Type |
Astrophysics |
Orbit |
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) |
Satellites on-board
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Launch statistics
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Orbital Launch
#4321
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Location Launch
#112
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Pad Launch
#45
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Agency Launch
#13
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Orbital Launch
#42
Year 1999
Location Launch
#2
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Pad Launch
#2
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Agency Launch
#1
Year 1999
Latest news about the launch
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NASA’s Chandra Shares a New View of Our Galactic Neighbor
The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years. Astronomers use Andromeda to understand the structure and evolution of our own spiral, which is much harder...
NASA’s Chandra Sees Surprisingly Strong Black Hole Jet at Cosmic “Noon”
A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and discussed in our latest press release. This jet exists early enough in the cosmos that it is being illumin...
Galaxy Clusters on Course to Crash Again, NASA’s Chandra Finds
New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have captured a rare cosmic event: two galaxy clusters have collided and are now poised to head back for another swipe at each other. Galaxy clusters are some of the largest struc...
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