Saturday, June 17, 1995

Saturn SA-1

  1961-S357


The first Saturn C-1 launch, Saturn 101 or SA-1, took place from Launch Complex 34 at Cape Canaveral at 1506 on 1961 Oct 27. The Saturn S-4-1 and S-V-1 upper stages were both dummies. The Centaur was topped by a payload adapter, a Jupiter aft unit (truncated cone) and a Jupiter nosecone. Apogee was 136 km.

SP-4205 gives 1800:06 as the launch time, but the postlaunch report MPR-SAT-WF-61-8 gives 1506:03 and seems definitive (consistent with other times given in same document, so not a typo).

Mass was 153421 kg at OECO including 86874 kg of water ballast.


SA-1 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1961 Oct 27  1506:03  Launch by Saturn C-1 
 1507:53 T+1:50 IECO 
 1507:59  T+1:56 OECO 
 1508:02  T+1:59 end of thrust decay 
 1510:12  T+4:09 Apogee 136 km  -6330 x 136  
 1512:52  T+6:49 LOS at 19 km descending 

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