launched fromUSA

Discoverer 3

Name: Discoverer 3
Start: 1959-06-03T20:09:20Z
Location: Vandenberg

Failure

JUN 03195920:09:20 UTC

Agena attitude control malfunction pointed the stage in the wrong direction, sending it into the Pacific Ocean rather than orbit.

LIFTOFF

JUN 03 1959

20:09:20 UTC

Failure

launched from LC-75-3-4 Vandenberg

aboard Thor DM-18 Agena-A Thor 174 into LEO

Payload

Reconnaissance