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Mercury-Atlas 4 (MA-4)

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

14:04:00

Wednesday September 13, 1961

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Mission Details

Mercury-Atlas 4

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Mercury-Atlas 4 was an unmanned spaceflight of the Mercury program. It was launched on September 13, 1961 at 14:09 UTC from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. A Crewman Simulator instrument package was aboard. The craft orbited the Earth once.

Low Earth Orbit

1 Payload

Rocket

Retired
Atlas-D Mercury

Active 1959 to 1963

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Agency

NASA

Rocket

Height: 28.7m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 1,360 kg

Liftoff Thrust

1,880 Kilonewtons

Stages

2

Launch Site

LC-14

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

14 days 23 hours

Stats

Atlas LV-3B

5th

Mission

3rd

Mission of 1961

1961

34th

Orbital launch attempt