Discoverer 3 - rocket launch details

Launch time3 Jun 195920:09:20 UTC

failure

Orbit: LEO

Serial number: Thor 174

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

Rocket ThorDM-18 Agena-A

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

Name	Purpose	Mass	Comment
Discoverer 3	Reconnaissance	-	-