![]() Endeavour's Canadarm captures the Space Flyer Unit | |
Mission type | Satellite retrieval Research |
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Operator | NASA |
COSPAR ID | 1996-001A |
SATCAT no. | 23762 |
Mission duration | 8 days, 22 hours, 01 minutes, 47 seconds |
Distance travelled | 6,000,000 kilometres (3,700,000 mi) |
Orbits completed | 142 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Endeavour |
Launch mass | 112,182 kilograms (247,319 lb) |
Landing mass | 98,549 kilograms (217,263 lb) |
Payload mass | 6,510 kilograms (14,350 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 6 |
Members | |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 11 January 1996, 09:41:00.072 | UTC
Launch site | Kennedy, LC-39B |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 20 January 1996, 07:41:41 | UTC
Landing site | Kennedy, SLF Runway 15 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 185 kilometres (115 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 470 kilometres (290 mi) |
Inclination | 28.45 degrees |
Period | 91.1 min |
![]() ![]() Left to right - Seated: Jett, Duffy; Standing: Scott, Chiao, Wakata, Barry |
STS-72 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission to capture and return to Earth a Japanese microgravity research spacecraft known as Space Flyer Unit (SFU). The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 11 January 1996.