AS-102
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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.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- AS-102
- Spaceflight.image
- Saturn SA7 launch.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Launch of AS-102
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Spacecraft aerodynamics
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
- 1964-057A
- Spaceflight.SATCAT
- 883
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- ~7 hours, 30 minutes
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 59
- Spaceflight.spacecraft
- Apollo BP-15
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- Saturn I SA-7
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Cape Kennedy LC-37B
- Spaceflight.disposal_type
- Uncontrolled reentry
- Spaceflight.last_contact
- UTC
- Spaceflight.decay_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.orbit_epoch
- September 20, 1964
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Saturn SA7 launch.jpg
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- Saturn-Apollo 7
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1964-09-18
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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.
==Objectives== AS-102 was designed to repeat the flight of AS-101. It would once again carry a boilerplate Apollo command and service module. The only difference from Boilerplate 13 carried on AS-101 was that on Boilerplate 15, one of the simulated reaction control system thruster quads (attitude control thrusters) was instrumented to record launch temperatures and vibrations. Another major difference on AS-102 was that the launch escape system (LES) tower would be jettisoned using the launch escape and pitch control motors.