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Unmanned Mission
SA-3 (3)
Pad 34 (3)
Saturn-1 (3)
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
November 16, 1962
12:45:02 p.m. EST.
Altitude: 167 km
Inclination: xxx degrees
Orbits: (suborbital)
Duration: Days, hours, min, seconds
Distance: 211 km downrange
November 16, 1962. Impact in the Atlantic ocean
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1
Spacecraft
Payload
Water (95
tons),
Dummy 2nd stage,
Jupiter nose cone
Milestones
09/19/62 - S-1 Stage ondock at KSC
09/19/62 - S-IV (dummy) Stage ondock at KSC
09/19/62 - S-IU ondock at KSC
11/16/62 - Launch
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