Long Duration Exposure Facility
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| Periods | 1. 6 hours |
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| Inclination | 28. 5° |
| Launch date | April 6, 1984 |
| Cost | 14 million USD |
| Manufacturers | NASA Langley Research Center |
| Orbits completed | 32,422 |
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| ID | 2119246 |
About Long Duration Exposure Facility
NASA's Long Duration Exposure Facility, or LDEF, was a school bus-sized cylindrical facility designed to provide long-term experimental data on the outer space environment and its effects on space systems, materials, operations and selected spores' survival.