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Discoverer 9
Thor Agena A · Government/Top Secret
1960Space Launch Complex 1W, Vandenberg
Mission
Discoverer 9 was an American optical reconnaissance satellite, the sixth of ten operational flights of the Corona KH-1 spy satellite series, and the first of them to be equipped with a new, vacuum-proof, polyester-based film. The satellite was not successfully orbited.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- USAF
- Rocket
- Thor Agena A
- Orbit
- LEO
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 1W
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2