FLIGHT SEQUENCE

FLIGHT SEQUENCE

T-Plus Event
00:00 Lift-off
00:10 Pitch and roll maneuver initiated
00:15 Roll terminated
01:19 Maximum dynamic pressure (altitude 7.8 miles, 2.5 miles downrange, velocity 1,010 miles per hour).
02:15.7 Pitch terminated
02:20.7 First stage inboard engines cutoff
02:23.7 First stage outboard engines cutoff (altitude 35 miles; 35 miles down- range, velocity 4,150 mph)
02:24.3 Second stage ullage rocket ignition
02:24.5 First stage separates
02:26.13 Second stage ignition
02:49.55 Camera capsule ejected from separated S-IB
02:50 Launch escape system Jettison
02:52.55 Initiate active guidance
10:01.35 Second stage engine cutoff (altitude 135 miles, 969 miles downrange, velocity 14,300 mph).
10:11 Separation of spacecraft from Saturn second stage
10:22 First burn Service Propulsion System Engine (SPS), 215 seconds
11:52 Second stage bulkhead test begins
13:57 First burn concluded
41:25 Apogee reached, 706 statute miles
1:05:38 RCS ullage burn
1:06:08 Second burn SPS, 88 seconds
1:07:36 Second SPS burn concluded
1:07:45 Third SPS burn, 3 seconds
1:07:49 Third SPS burn concluded
1:07:59 Fourth burn SPS, 3 seconds
1:08:02 Fourth SPS burn concluded
1:09:58 CM/SM separation attitude
1:11:16 CM/SM separation sequence starts (150 seconds RCS burn SM)
1:11:17 CM/SM separation
1:11:56 CM reentry attitude
1:12:38 CM at 400,000 foot altitude
1:13:36 Blackout begins
1:23:36 Blackout ends
1:26:58 Apex cover jettisoned
1:27:00 Drogue chute deployed
1:27:52 Main chute deployed at 10,350 feet
1:32:54 Splashdown

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Last update: March 1, 1998