Discoverer 13 - rocket launch details

Launch time10 Aug 196020:37:54 UTC

success

Orbit: LEO

Serial number: Thor 231

First successful recovery of a manmade object from orbit.

Rocket ThorDM-18 Agena-A

launched from Vandenberg AFB, LC-75-3-5USA

Name	Purpose	Mass	Comment
Discoverer 13	Reconnaissance	-	-