STS-52

STS-52
	Columbia's payload bay, with the LAGEOS 2 satellite being deployed.
Names	Space Transportation System-52
Mission type	Microgravity research; LAGEOS 2 satellite deployment
Operator	NASA
COSPAR ID	1992-070A
SATCAT no.	22194
Mission duration	9 days, 20 hours, 56 minutes, 13 seconds
Distance travelled	6,645,026 km (4,129,028 mi)
Orbits completed	159
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Space Shuttle Columbia
Launch mass	113,460 kg (250,140 lb)
Landing mass	97,574 kg (215,114 lb)
Payload mass	8,078 kg (17,809 lb)
Crew
Crew size	6
Members	Jim Wetherbee; Michael A. Baker; Charles L. Veach; William Shepherd; Tamara E. Jernigan; Steve MacLean;
Start of mission
Launch date	October 22, 1992, 17:09:39 UTC
Rocket	Space Shuttle Columbia
Launch site	Kennedy Space Center, LC-39B
Contractor	Rockwell International
End of mission
Landing date	November 1, 1992, 14:05:52 UTC
Landing site	Kennedy Space Center,; SLF Runway 33
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric orbit
Regime	Low Earth orbit
Perigee altitude	300 km (190 mi)
Apogee altitude	302 km (188 mi)
Inclination	28.45°
Period	90.60 minutes
Instruments
	Canadian experiment (CANEX-2); Chemical Vapor Transport Experiment Heat Pipe Performance Experiment (CVTEHPPE); Lambda Point Experiment; Low Altitude Conical Earth Sensor (LACES); Materials Exposure in Low-Earth Orbit (MELEO); Matériel pour l'Étude des Phénomènes Intéressant la Solidification sur eT en Orbite (MEPHISTO); Modular Star Sensor (MOSS); Mission Peculiar Equipment Support Structures (MPESS); Orbiter Glow (OGLOW-2); Phase Partitioning in Liquids (PARLIQ); Queen's University Experiment in Liquid-Metal Diffusion (QUELD); Physiological Systems Experiment (PSE); Space Acceleration Measurement System (SAMS); Space Adaptation Tests and Observations (SATO); Shuttle Plume Impingement Experiment (SPIE); Sun Photospectrometre Earth Atmosphere Measurement (SPEAM-2); Space Vision System (SVS); Tank Pressure Control Experiment/Thermal Phenomena (TPCE/TP); Yaw Earth Sensor (YES);
	; STS-52 mission patch; ; Back: Baker, Wetherbee, MacLean; Front: Veach, Jernigan, Shepherd Space Shuttle program

STS-52 was a Space Transportation System (NASA Space Shuttle) mission using Space Shuttle Columbia, and was launched on October 22, 1992.

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