Monday, December 25, 1989

Apollo AS-201

  1966-U04


Apollo SC009 was launched on 1966 Feb 26 at 1612 aboard Saturn 201 (AS-201). It separated from S-IVB-201 at 1622 and reached apogee at 500 km. At 1632 it ignited the SPS engine for 3 min 4 sec, followed by another 10s burn at 1635, accelerating the spacecraft to lunar reentry speeds. CM-009 then seperated from the SM-009 service module. It reentered the atmosphere at 8.1 km/s and splashed down at 1651 in the Atlantic having travelled 9000 km. It was recovered by the USS Boxer.


AS-201 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1966 Feb 26  1612:01  Launch by Saturn IB 
 1614:22  OECO (2:21) 
 1614:28  IECO (2:27) 
 1614:29  SIB sep -6145 x 107 x 30.8  
 1614:30  S4B burn for 7:33 
 1614?  Camera pods (2) ejected from SIB 
 1614:40  Ullage case jettison 
 1614:54  LES sep 
 1616:12  SIB apogee 
 1620:53  SIB impact, range 465 km at 27.3N 76.0W 
 1622:04  S4B cutoff 261km  -2163 x 493 x 31.9 
 1622:05  LH2 vent on 
 1623:04  Begin sep sequence 
 1623:28  LES impact 27.09N 75.26W range 546 km 
 1623:34  LOX vent on 
 1624:04  LOX vent off 
 1624:04  LH2 vent off 
 1626:06  CSM sep 435 km  -2151 x 493 x 31.9 
 1626:07  +X RCS 18s 
 1630:05  S4B apogee, 492.8 km 
 1631:42   -2149 x 492 x 31.9 
 1632:11  SPS 1 burn 180s 
 1633:16  SPS-1 MECO 7.787km/s -9 deg 320 km  -625? x 1525? x 31 
 1635:30  SPS 2 burn 
 1635:40  SPS-2 MECO 295 km  -565 x 1674 x 30.7  
 1636:16  SM sep 
 1638:06 T+26:05 122 km Reentry 8.07 km/s 
 1640:27  S4B LOS, 107km 
 1640:46  SM impact at 6.93S 13.3W range 8217 km 
 1642:54  Drogue parachute out 
 1643:57  S4B impact at 9.66S 10.08W, range 8662 km 
 1649:20  Splashdown in Atlantic 8.18S 11.15W 
 1725Recovered by USS Boxer 

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