Discoverer 6 (Corona 9003 / KH-1 3), a CIA/NRO film-return photoreconnaissance satellite, launched on a Thor Agena-A from Vandenberg on 19 August 1959. It reached polar orbit, but the C camera failed by the second orbit and the film-return capsule was not recovered.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 220 kg
- Flight
- 6th
- of 15 Thor Agena A flights
- Date and time
- 19 August 1959, 19:24 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Agena A
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 1E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1959-006
- Launches in 1959
- 15th of 23
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