Saturn I SA-5, the first Block II Saturn I flight and first orbital Saturn launch under Apollo. From Cape Kennedy LC-37B on 29 January 1964 it flew a live S-IV hydrogen upper stage with a Jupiter nosecone/ballast, placing about 17 tonnes into LEO—then the heaviest U.S. satellite.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8.1 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 6 Saturn I flights
- Date and time
- 29 January 1964, 16:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Saturn I
- Builder
- Chrysler
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1964-005
- Launches in 1964
- 5th of 100
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