Marshall Space Flight Center finalized a $2,697,546 addition to an existing contract with Douglas Aircraft Company to provide for environmental testing of a full-scale S-IVB forward stage simulator, a full-scale test instrument unit, and an Apollo thermal simulator. Testing would be conducted in...
. Status: Retired 1998. Gross mass: 25,649 kg (56,546 lb). Unfuelled mass: 3,733 kg (8,229 lb). Thrust: 577.34 kN (129,791 lbf). More at: Nitric acid/UDMHTaepodong 1-2 - Nitric acid/UDMH propellant rocket stage. Included 100 kg spin table for spin-up of third stage prior...
third apogee, 3 hours 47 minutes after launch. The terminal phase initiation maneuver was performed an hour and a half later. Two midcourse corrections preceded final braking maneuvers at 5 hours 50 minutes into the flight. Rendezvous was technically accomplished and stationkeeping began some 6 min...