Mission Parameters
- Mass:
- Orbiter liftoff: 110,568 kilograms (243,760 lb)
- Orbiter landing: 97,144 kilograms (214,170 lb)
- Payload: 14,451 kilograms (31,860 lb)
- Perigee: 319 kilometres (198 mi)
- Apogee: 331 kilometres (206 mi)
- Inclination: 57.0°
- Period: 91.0 min
Read more about this topic: STS-61-A
Famous quotes containing the words mission and/or parameters:
“We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we could think in terms of a large molecule made up of carbon compounds that can replicate, or make copies of itself, and metabolize food and energy. So that’s the thought: macrocolecule, metabolism, replication.”
—Cyril Ponnamperuma (b. 1923)
“Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.”
—Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)