Monday, October 18, 2004

Saturn S-IVB-512

  1972-096B


SA-512 was launched on 1972 Dec 7 at 0533. The S-IVB-512 stage impacted the lunar surface on Dec 10. Location 4.21S 12.31W.

Impact was at 35.0 deg to vertical at 2.544 km/s at 83 deg W of N implying a -524 x Inf x 7 deg orbit.


S-4B-512 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1972 Dec 7  0533  Launch 
1972 Dec 7  0535:19 S-IC center engine cutoff 
1972 Dec 7  0535:41 Outboard engine cutoff 
1972 Dec 7  0535:43 S-IC stage separation, S-II ignition 
1972 Dec 7  0535:45 Interstage separation 
1972 Dec 7  0536:19 LES separation 
1972 Dec 7  0540:41 S-II center engine cutoff 
1972 Dec 7  0542:19 S-II outboard engine cutoff 
1972 Dec 7  0542:19 S-II stage separation 
1972 Dec 7  0542:21 S-IVB-512 ignition  67.21 -1977 x 173 x 28 
1972 Dec 7  0544:42 S-IVB-512 main engine cutoff 
1972 Dec 7  0544:52 Orbit insertion  167 x 172  
1972 Dec 7  0845:37 S-IVB-512 reignites for a 5m51s TLI burn 3.157km/s  
  139842 kg at TIG, 180 kg alt 
1972 Dec 7  0851:38 Translunar injection (TLI) at 280 km 10.846km/s 
   201 x 457377 x 28.47 
   200 x 455279 x 28.47 
1972 Dec 7 0915:29 CSM separates from S-IVB/SLA 
1972 Dec 7 0929:45 CSM 114 docks with LM 12 (attached to S-IVB) 
 0930  Hard dock, partial latch problem 
1972 Dec 7 1018:00 CSM 114/LM 12 separate from S-IVB-512 
 1036:00  S-4B sep mvr APS evasive 80s 2.9m/s 
 1052  CVS vent 
 1057  CVS vent complete 
 1057:20  S-4B LOX dump 48s 9.1m/s 
 1125  S-4B APS-1 targeting 98s 4.1m/s 
 1630  S-4B APS-2 adjust burn 4.3m/s 
   68 x 424169 x 28.42 
1972 Dec 10  2312:40 Impact 

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