Human Spaceflight
APOLLO 9 LM APS
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The ascent propulsion system (APS) or lunar module ascent engine (LMAE) is a fixed-thrust hypergolic rocket engine developed by Bell Aerosystems for use in the Apollo Lunar Module ascent stage. It used Aerozine 50 fuel, and N2O4 oxidizer. Rocketdyne provided the injector system, at the request of NASA, when Bell could not solve combustion instability problems.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 3, 1969 at 04:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Saturn V →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Apollo 9
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 196 km
- Periapsis
- 131 km
- Inclination
- 28.81°
- Orbital period
- 87.75 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1969-018C
- NORAD catalog №
- 3771
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 29.877 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 23, 1981
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 23, 1981
- Time in service
- 12.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed