Long Duration Exposure Facility

Summary

Long Duration Exposure Facility is a research satellite^[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of research_satellite entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (106 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Long Duration Exposure Facility's image is recorded as Long Duration Exposure Facility after deployment (cropped).jpg^[3].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's instance of is recorded as research satellite^[4].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's operator is recorded as National Aeronautics and Space Administration^[5].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's manufacturer is recorded as Langley Research Center^[6].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85075415^[7].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's COSPAR ID is recorded as 1984-034B^[8].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's Commons category is recorded as Long Duration Exposure Facility^[9].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's space launch vehicle is recorded as Space Shuttle^[10].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's SCN is recorded as 14898^[11].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's country of origin is recorded as United States^[12].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's type of orbit is recorded as low Earth orbit^[13].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's UTC date of spacecraft launch is recorded as +1984-04-06T00:00:00Z^[14].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's UTC date of spacecraft landing is recorded as +1990-01-20T00:00:00Z^[15].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/024s82^[16].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's significant event is recorded as rocket launch^[17].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's significant event is recorded as deployment^[18].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's significant event is recorded as capture^[19].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's significant event is recorded as recovery^[20].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's significant event is recorded as landing^[21].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's described at URL is recorded as https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/mic/ldef/^[22].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's described at URL is recorded as http://setas-www.larc.nasa.gov/LDEF/^[23].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's location of landing is recorded as Edwards Air Force Base^[24].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's orbits completed is recorded as {'amount': '+32422'}^[25].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's start point is recorded as Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A^[26].
• Long Duration Exposure Facility's length is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+9.14'}^[27].

Why It Matters

Long Duration Exposure Facility ranks in the top 9% of research_satellite entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (106 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]