Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
ISM spectra. This reconstructed record groups 4 GCAT payload or flight elements under launch 1996-065; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 19 November 1996, 19:55:47 UTC
- Launch location
- NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida
- Launch vehicle
- Space Shuttle
- Orbit
- Lower low Earth orbit (inclined)
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 7 December 1996
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
STS-80
GCAT program: OV-102.
- GCAT ID
- S24660
- Manufacturer
- Rockwell International (Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale)
- Launch mass
- 99,716 kg
- Dimensions
- 37.3 m long · 23.8 m diameter · 37.3 m span
ORFEUS-SPAS II
ISM spectra.
- GCAT ID
- S24661
- Manufacturer
- Deutsche Aerospace AG (DASA)-Ottobrunn
- Launch mass
- 3,572 kg
- Dimensions
- 2.5 m long · 4.5 m diameter · 4.5 m span
WSF
Vacuum epitaxy experiments.
- GCAT ID
- S24662
- Manufacturer
- Space Industries International/Calspan
- Launch mass
- 2,109 kg
- Dimensions
- 1.8 m long · 3.6 m diameter · 3.6 m span
EDO
GCAT program: EDO.
- GCAT ID
- A05857
- Manufacturer
- Rockwell International (Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale)
- Launch mass
- 3,200 kg
- Dimensions
- 1.5 m long · 4.6 m diameter · 4.6 m span
Visual archive
Gallery
One image from STS-80.
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