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Unmanned Mission
SA-2 (2)
Pad 34 (2)
Saturn-1 (2)
The first payload carried on
SA-2 and SA-3 was called Project
Highwater, authorized by NASA's Office of Space Sciences. The inert S-IV and S-V stages for these launches carried
109,000 liters (30,000 gallons) of ballast water for release in the upper atmosphere. This was
used to study the effects on radio transmission and changes in local weather conditions. At an
altitude of 150km, explosive devices ruptured the S-IV and S-V tanks and in just five seconds,
ground observers saw the formation of a huge ice cloud estimated to be several kilometers in
diameter. Result: Successful
April 25, 1962 09:00:34 a.m. EST.
Altitude: 105 km
Inclination: xxx degrees
Orbits: (suborbital)
Duration: Days, hours, min, seconds
Distance: 80 km downrange
April 25, 1962
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1
Spacecraft
Payload
Water (95
tons),
Dummy 2nd stage,
Jupiter nose cone
Milestones
02/27/62
- S-1 Stage ondock at KSC
02/27/62
- S-IV (dummy) Stage ondock at KSC
02/27/62
- S-IU
ondock at KSC
04/25/62
- Launch
Vehicle at Pad
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