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STS-119

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Launch Details

Date: 15 Mar 2009, 11:43 pm UTC

Rocket: Space Shuttle

Provider: United Space Alliance

Mission

Type: Human Exploration

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Mission Description

STS-119 (ISS assembly flight 15A) was a space shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which was flown by Space Shuttle Discovery during March 2009. It delivered and assembled the fourth starboard Integrated Truss Segment (S6), and the fourth set of solar arrays and batteries to the station.