SA-4 (4)

Pad 34 (4)

Saturn-1 (4)

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

Payload:

Dummy second stage, Jupiter nose cone

Mission Objective:

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).

Launch:

March 28, 1963. 03:11:55 p.m. EST.

Orbit:

Altitude:

Inclination: xxx degrees

Orbits: (suborbital)

Duration: Days, hours, min, seconds

Distance:

Landing:

03/28/63. Impact in the Atlantic ocean

Mission Highlights:

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