Discoverer 5 (Corona 9002 / KH-1 2), a CIA/NRO film-return photoreconnaissance satellite, launched on a Thor Agena-A from Vandenberg on 13 August 1959. Second operational KH-1 flight; it reached orbit, but the camera failed on the first orbit and the return capsule entered a higher orbit instead of deorbiting.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 280 kg
- Flight
- 5th
- of 15 Thor Agena A flights
- Date and time
- 13 August 1959, 19:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Agena A
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 1W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1959-005
- Launches in 1959
- 13th of 23
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