launched fromUSA

Discoverer 1

Name: Discoverer 1
Start: 1959-02-28T21:49:16Z
Location: Vandenberg

Failure

FEB 28195921:49:16 UTC

Maiden flight of Thor-Agena. Agena telemetry lost T+730 seconds. Fate of the payload unknown, but generally presumed to have impacted somewhere in Antarctica.

LIFTOFF

FEB 28 1959

21:49:16 UTC

Failure

launched fromLC-75-3-4Vandenberg

aboardThor DM-18 Agena-AThor 163intoLEO

Payload

Discoverer 1

Reconnaissance