SA-4 was the last of the four Block I suborbital test flights used to verify the Saturn I’s S-I first stage. It was launched on March 28, 1963 – the last Saturn rocket to launch from LC-34 until the first flights of the Saturn IB almost three years later.
SA-4 saw a lot of visible changes to the launch vehicle. The single Block II antenna panel of SA-3 was increased to a full complement of eight (in four pairs). In addition to the four live retro motors on the first stage, four inactive Block II retro motor fairings were added to the dummy S-IV second stage. The S-IV was also fitted with other (inactive) features of the Block II design for aerodynamic testing – three H2 chill-down ducts, camera pods mounted on either side of new spider beam fairings, four ullage motors and a systems tunnel.
The mission lasted 15 minutes and reached a maximum height of 129 km.
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
