Status
Success
Rocket
Mission Details
SA-5
The major changes that occurred on SA-5 were that for the first time the Saturn I would fly with two stages - the S-I first stage and the S-IV second stage. The second stage featured six engines burning liquid hydrogen. Although this engine design (RL10) was meant to be tested several years earlier in the Centaur upper stage, in the end the first Centaur was launched only two months before SA-5.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 17,600.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit
Location
LC-34, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
1964
5th orbital launch attempt
Saturn I
5th mission
1st mission of 1964
5th successful mission