STS-90
STS-90 was a 1998 Space Shuttle mission flown by the Space Shuttle Columbia. The 16-day mission marked the last flight of the European Space Agency's Spacelab laboratory module, which had first flown on Columbia on STS-9, and was also the last daytime landing for Columbia.
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.
Service provider
Commercial • USA
United Space Alliance (USA) is a spaceflight operations company. USA is a joint venture which was established in August 1995 as a Limited Liability Company (LLC), equally owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
Objects from this launch
1 object
SATCAT inventory for 1998-022
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Snapshot hash: a5a2665ae71633d962aef9ce438715a716b03aacbfd274ffa6cef965cda70e96
LL2 payloads: 0SATCAT payloads: 1Delta: +1RB: 0DEB: 0UNK: 0
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SATCAT payload objects
STS 90
1998-022ANORAD 25297PAYUnited States (US)Ops: D Technical details
Orbit type: LANOrbit center: EALaunch site: AFETRPeriod: 89.72 min
Inc: 39.0°
247 km → 274 km