launched fromUSA

Discoverer 13

Name: Discoverer 13
Start: 1960-08-10T20:37:54Z
Location: Vandenberg

Success

AUG 10196020:37:54 UTC

First successful recovery of a manmade object from orbit.

LIFTOFF

AUG 10 1960

20:37:54 UTC

Success

launched fromLC-75-3-5Vandenberg

aboardThor DM-18 Agena-AThor 231intoLEO

Payload

Reconnaissance