LaunchesDiscoverer 6
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Discoverer 6
Thor Agena A · Government/Top Secret
1959Space Launch Complex 1E, Vandenberg
Mission
Discoverer 6 was the sixth in a series of reconnaissance satellites, however, it failed to return its capsule when the retrorocket failed to deorbit the capsule.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- USAF
- Rocket
- Thor Agena A
- Orbit
- PO
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 1E
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2