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STS-103
Human spaceflight Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission by Space Shuttle Discovery. STS-103 was launched on December 20, 1999 aboard a Space Shuttle from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: landed (Dec 28, 1999).
COSPAR 1999-069ANORAD 25996United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Discovery (STS-103)
- Common name
- STS-103
- Payload designation
- OV-103
- International designator
- 1999-069A
- NORAD catalog number
- 25996
- GCAT identifier
- S25996
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/369
Mission
- Mission type
- Human spaceflight
- Use
- Civil government
- Program
- STS
- Owner
- NASA JSC
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Boeing North American/Palmdale
- Platform (bus)
- STS OV
Launch
- Date
- December 20, 1999 · 00:50 UTC
- Launch record
- 1999-069Success
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC39B
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/I
- Perigee
- 570 km
- Apogee
- 589 km
- Inclination
- 28.47°
- Status
- Landed
- Status date
- December 28, 1999
- Last known active
- Dec 28, 1999
- End of operations
- Dec 28, 1999
Size
- Mass
- 99.8 t
- Dry mass
- 88.9 t
- Total mass with attached objects
- 107.2 t
- Length
- 37.3 m
- Diameter
- 23.80 m
- Span
- 37.3 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q834666 (CC0).