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Launch Complex 5
A launch pad at Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA.13 launches have flown from it since July 1958, 9 of 13 successfully.
Launches
13
Success rate
69.2% 9/13
Failures
4
First flight
1958-07-26
Latest flight
1961-07-21
Busiest year
1958 4 flights
Fastest turnaround
28d 2h 15m
Location
Pad record
- Coordinates
- 28.4394° N
80.5733° W - Status
- Active
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Country
- United States
- Pad operator
- United States Air Force
- LL2 pad tally
- 13 upstream count
- Reference
- Wikipedia
Vehicles flown
3 typesLaunches per year
decided flights1958Peak 1958, 4 launches1961
Orbits delivered
5 destinationsSuborbital 6Low Earth Orbit 2Lunar flyby 2Medium Earth Orbit 2Elliptical Orbit 1
Flight record
13 flights| Date | Mission | Vehicle | Operator | Orbit | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-07-21 | Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone 4 | Redstone | – | Suborbital | Success |
| 1961-05-05 | Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone 3 | Redstone | – | Suborbital | Success |
| 1961-03-24 | Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone BD | Redstone | – | Suborbital | Success |
| 1961-01-31 | Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone 2 | Redstone | – | Suborbital | Success |
| 1960-12-19 | Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone 1A | Redstone | – | Suborbital | Success |
| 1960-11-21 | Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone 1 | Redstone | – | Suborbital | Failure |
| 1959-10-13 | Juno II | Explorer 7 | Juno II | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1959-07-16 | Juno II | NASA S-1 | Juno II | – | Elliptical Orbit | Failure |
| 1959-03-03 | Juno II | Pioneer 4 | Juno II | – | Lunar flyby | Success |
| 1958-12-06 | Juno II | Pioneer 3 | Juno II | – | Lunar flyby | Success |
| 1958-10-23 | Juno-I | Beacon | Juno-I | – | Low Earth Orbit | Failure |
| 1958-08-24 | Juno-I | Explorer 5 | Juno-I | – | Medium Earth Orbit | Failure |
| 1958-07-26 | Juno-I | Explorer 4 | Juno-I | – | Medium Earth Orbit | Success |
Pad records from Launch Library 2. Flights and company identity fromSpace Index. How the numbers are derived.