STS-2
STS-2 was the second flight of the Space Shuttle program. It flew on Columbia again marking the first time in history that a manned, reusable orbital vehicle returned to orbit for a second time.
The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS). Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011.
Objects from this launch
1 object
SATCAT inventory for 1981-111
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LL2 payloads: 0SATCAT payloads: 1Delta: +1RB: 0DEB: 0UNK: 0
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STS 2 (OFT-2)
1981-111ANORAD 12953PAYUnited States (US)Ops: D Technical details
Orbit type: LANOrbit center: EALaunch site: AFETRPeriod: 89.71 min
Inc: 38.0°
255 km → 265 km