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Atlas LV-3B · Test Flight
1959Space Launch Complex 14, Cape Canaveral
Mission
Suborbital flight with the objective of testing the Mercury spacecraft ablative heat shield. The Atlas booster section failed to jettison, leading to a lower apogee. It was nonetheless sufficient to satisfy the Mercury spacecraft team.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- NASA
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3B
- Orbit
- Sub
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 14
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2