Discoverer 1 - rocket launch details

Launch time28 Feb 195921:49:16 UTC

failure

Orbit: LEO

Serial number: Thor 163

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.

Mission
Rocket
Payloads

Rocket ThorDM-18 Agena-A

launched from Vandenberg AFB, LC-75-3-4USA

Payloads

Name	Purpose	Mass	Comment
Discoverer 1	Reconnaissance	-	-

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Payloads

Rocket ThorDM-18 Agena-A