Michael Coats
American - ( NASA)
Retired
Date of Birth: Jan. 16, 1946
Age: 73
Michael Lloyd Coats is a former NASA astronaut (three spaceflights), raised in Riverside, California. From December 2005 to December 2012, he served as Director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-41-D
United Space Alliance | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Aug. 30, 1984, 12:41 p.m.
Status: Success
Mission: Communications
STS-41-D was the twelth flight of the Space Shuttle program and the maiden flight for Space Shuttle Discovery. It deployed three commercial 10 satellites during the six day mission along with a number of scientific experiments being conducted.
Low Earth OrbitSpace Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-29
United Space Alliance | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
March 13, 1989, 2:57 p.m.
Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-39
United Space Alliance | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 28, 1991, 11:33 a.m.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Kuaizhou
Kuaizhou
Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaLong March 6
Ningxia 1 (x5)
Unknown Pad - Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaNingxia 1 is a constellation of remote sensing satellites developed by Dongfanghong Satellite Co., Ltd.
Kuaizhou
Jilin-1-02A
Unknown Pad - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaJilin-1 is a series of Chinese commercial remote sensing satellites.
Falcon 9 Block 5
Starlink 1
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 60 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system. Since the demo launch of...
Long March 3
Beidou-3 IGSO-3
Launch Complex 3 ( LC-3 ) ( LA-1 ) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaBeidou is a Chinese satellite navigation system. Beidou-3 IGSO-3 is another addition to the part of the constellation consisting of satellites in a...
