A-102

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

16:22:43

Friday September 18, 1964

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

AS-102

Wiki

AS-102 (also designated SA-7) was the seventh flight of the Saturn I launch vehicle, which carried the boilerplate Apollo spacecraft BP-15 into low Earth orbit. The test took place on September 18, 1964, lasting for five orbits (about seven and a half hours). The spacecraft and its upper stage completed 59 orbits before reentering the atmosphere and crashing in the Indian Ocean on September 22, 1964.

Low Earth Orbit

1 Payload

16,700 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Saturn I Block II

Active 1964 to 1965

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo

Agency

NASA

Rocket

Height: 55m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 9,070 kg

Liftoff Thrust

6,700 Kilonewtons

Stages

2

Launch Site

SLC-37B

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

66 days 5 hours

Stats

Saturn I


7th

Mission

3rd

Mission of 1964

1964


67th

Orbital launch attempt