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| Mission Statistics | |
| Mission: | STS-48 |
| Shuttle: | Discovery |
| Launch Pad: | 39-A |
| Launch: | September 12, 1991, 7:11:04 p.m. EDT. |
| Landing: | September 18,1991, 12:38:42 a.m. PDT, Runway 22, Edwards AFB, Calif. |
| Duration: | 5 days, 8 hours, 27 minutes, 38 seconds. |
| Orbit Altitude: | 313 nautical miles (580 km) |
| Orbit Inclination: | 57.0 degrees |
| Miles Traveled: | 2,193,670 miles (3,530,369 km) |
| Crew photo | |
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Crew
- John O. Creighton (3), Commander
- Kenneth S. Reightler, Jr. (1), Pilot
- James F. Buchli (4), Mission Specialist 1
- Charles D. Gemar (2), Mission Specialist 2
- Mark N. Brown (2), Mission Specialist 3
Mission Highlights
Primary payload, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), deployed on the third day of the mission. During its planned 18-month mission, the l4,500-pound observatory will make the most extensive study ever conducted of the Earth's troposphere, the upper level of the planet's envelope of life- sustaining gases which also include the protective ozone layer. UARS has ten sensing and measuring devices: Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer (CLAES); Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder (ISAMS); Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS); Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE); High Resolution Doppler Imager (HRDI); Wind Imaging Interferometer (WlNDII); Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor (SUSIM); Solar/Stellar Irra- diance Comparison Experiment (SOLSTICE); Particle Environ- ment Monitor (PEM) and Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor (ACRIM II).
Secondary payloads were: Ascent Particle Monitor (APM); Middeck 0-Gravity Dynamics Experiment (MODE); Shuttle Activation Monitor (SAM); Cosmic Ray Effects and Activation Monitor (CREAM); Physiological and Anatomical Rodent Experiment (PARE); Protein Crystal Growth II-2 (PCG II-2); Investigations into Polymer Membrane Processing (IPMP); and the Air Force Maui Optical Site (AMOS) experiment.
Related articles
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- List of human spaceflights chronologically
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