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Unmanned Mission
SA-4 (4)
Pad 34 (4)
Saturn-1 (4)
The Saturn-1 booster S-1 stage consisted of a cluster of 8 H-1 engines. One of the appealing
features of this configuration was the added safety of providing for an "engine-out capability" where other engines could burn longer than planned if an engine cutoff early. On the SA-4 mission, a premature single engine cutoff of one engine was programmed 100 seconds into the flight. This experiment was successful.
(NASA SP-4206 page 324).
March 28, 1963. 03:11:55 p.m. EST.
Altitude: 130 km
Inclination: xxx degrees
Orbits: (suborbital)
Duration: Days, hours, min, seconds
Distance: 352 km downrange
March 28, 1963.
Impact in the Atlantic ocean
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1
Spacecraft
Payload
Dummy 2nd stage,
Jupiter nose cone
Milestones
02/02/63 - S-1 Stage ondock at KSC
02/02/63 - S-IV Stage ondock at KSC
02/02/63 - S-IU ondock at KSC
03/28/63 - Launch
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