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Mercury-Atlas 4
Test flight of the Atlas rocket and Mercury spacecraft. Mercury-Atlas 4 was launched on September 13, 1961 aboard a Atlas D from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: landed (Sep 13, 1961).
COSPAR 1961 A ALP 1NORAD 183United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Mercury MA-4
- Common name
- Mercury-Atlas 4
- Payload designation
- Mercury SC8A
- International designator
- 1961 A ALP 1
- NORAD catalog number
- 183
- GCAT identifier
- S00183
Mission
- Mission type
- Human spaceflight
- Use
- Civil government
- Program
- Mercury MA
- Owner
- NASA LaRC/STG
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- McDonnell Aircraft
- Platform (bus)
- Mercury
Launch
- Date
- September 13, 1961 · 14:04 UTC
- Launch record
- 1961 A ALPSuccess
- Rocket
- Atlas D
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC14
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/I
- Perigee
- 149 km
- Apogee
- 240 km
- Inclination
- 32.54°
- Status
- Landed
- Status date
- September 13, 1961
- Last known active
- Sep 13, 1961
- End of operations
- Sep 13, 1961
Size
- Mass
- 1,000 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,000 kg
- Total mass with attached objects
- 1,203 kg
- Length
- 2.9 m
- Diameter
- 1.80 m
- Span
- 2.9 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q605618 (CC0).