Launched from LC-34 on November 16,1962, SA-3 was the third of the Saturn I Block I missions, with the primary objective (as on the previous two flights) of testing the clustered S-I first stage and its H-1 engines. Like SA-2, as the second and final mission in Project Highwater, it also carried a payload of water in its dummy S-IV and S-V second and third stages to be dispersed by explosive charges in the upper atmosphere. All of its objectives were considered to have been met, despite unreliable telemetry making some data unusable.
Notable changes from the previous two flights included the addition of four retro motors at the forward end of the S-I stage and the addition of a single Block II telemetry antenna panel between two of the S-I tanks. The retro motors were tested ahead of their planned use during stage separation on the later Block II flights.
At 1:110 scale this is a great companion model to the LEGO NASA Apollo Saturn V. Purchase includes a BrickLink Wishlist XML file and carefully prepared instructions with annotations to point out what the various details/sections are.
Sections of this model are adapted from David Welling’s OG Saturn I MOCs and it also repurposes the Saturn IB tank design devised by saxus, which is used with his kind permission.
Part count: bricks, lots.
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No: TNo: Serial Type Date LS Payload
1 1 SA-1 Saturn-1 (Bl.-1) 27.10.1961 CC LC-34 * (R/D) 2 2 SA-2 Saturn-1 (Bl.-1) 25.04.1962 CC LC-34 * Highwater 1 3 3 SA-3 Saturn-1 (Bl.-1) 16.11.1962 CC LC-34 * Highwater 2 4 4 SA-4 Saturn-1 (Bl.-1) 28.03.1963 CC LC-34 * (R/D) 5 1 SA-5 Saturn-1 (Bl.-2) 29.01.1964 CC LC-37B Saturn-SA 5 6 2 SA-6 Saturn-1 (Bl.-2) 28.05.1964 CC LC-37B Saturn-SA 6 & Apollo 101 (BP 13) 7 3 SA-7 Saturn-1 (Bl.-2) 18.09.1964 CC LC-37B Saturn-SA 7 & Apollo 102 (BP 15) 8 4 SA-9 Saturn-1 (Bl.-2) 16.02.1965 CC LC-37B Pegasus 1 / Apollo 103 (BP 16) 9 5 SA-8 Saturn-1 (Bl.-2) 25.05.1965 CC LC-37B Pegasus 2 / Apollo 104 (BP 26) 10 6 SA-10 Saturn-1 (Bl.-2) 30.07.1965 CC LC-37B Pegasus 3 / Apollo 105 (BP 9A) 11 1 SA-201 Saturn-1B 26.02.1966 CC LC-34 * Apollo 201 (CSM 009) 12 2 SA-203 Saturn-1B 05.07.1966 CC LC-37B Apollo 203 13 3 SA-202 Saturn-1B 25.08.1966 CC LC-34 * Apollo 202 (CSM 011) 14 4 SA-204 Saturn-1B 22.01.1968 CC LC-37B LM 1 (Apollo 5) 15 5 SA-205 Saturn-1B 11.10.1968 CC LC-34 Apollo 7 (CSM 101) 16 6 SA-206 Saturn-1B 25.05.1973 CCK LC-39B Skylab 2 (Apollo SLM-1, CSM 116) 17 7 SA-207 Saturn-1B 28.07.1973 CCK LC-39B Skylab 3 (Apollo SLM-2, CSM 117) / S150 (Galactic X-ray Mapping) 18 8 SA-208 Saturn-1B 16.11.1973 CCK LC-39B Skylab 4 (Apollo SLM-3, CSM 118) 19 9 SA-210 Saturn-1B 15.07.1975 CCK LC-39B ASTP (Apollo-Soyuz, CSM 111) / ASTP-DM Launch sites: CC = Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Eastern Test Range, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA CCK = NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA * = suborbital
Launch History information from space.skyrocket.de
