STS-75

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STS-75

- 1996 Feb 22 - - 20:18 GMT. Nation: USA. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral . Launch Complex: LC39B. Launch Vehicle: Shuttle . LV Configuration: STS-75.

STS-75 Program: STS. Payload: Columbia F19 / USMP-3 Aft. Mass: 10,592 kg. Class: Manned. Type: Spaceplane. Spacecraft: Columbia. Agency: NASA-JSC. Perigee: 277 km. Apogee: 320 km. Inclination: 28.5 deg. Period: 90.5 min. COSPAR: 1996-012A. Duration: 15.74 days. Flight Crew: Allen Andy, Chang-Diaz, Cheli, Guidoni, Hoffman, Horowitz, Nicollier. Manned flight: STS-75.
Carried TSS-1R tether satellite; satellite tether broke during deployment, making TSS-1R an unintentional free flyer
Payloads: Tethered Satellite System (TSS) Reflight (1R); Orbital Acceleration Research Experiment (OARE) (part of United States Microgravity Payload 3); USMP-3; Commercial Protein Crystal Growth (CPCG) 09, Block IV; Middeck Glovebox Experiment (MGBX) (part of USMP-3). During the deployment of TSS, the tether broke and the satellite was lost.
Orbits of Earth: 252. Distance traveled: 10,460,735 km. Orbiter Liftoff Mass: 118,610 kg. Payload to Orbit: 10,592 kg. Landed at: Concrete runway 33 at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. References: 4 , 6 , 7 , 276 .

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