Discoverer 14 (Corona Mission 9009 / KH-1), a CIA/NRO film-return photoreconnaissance satellite, launched on a Thor Agena-A from Vandenberg on 18 August 1960. Its SRV returned the first usable spy photos of the USSR and was the first object recovered mid-air from orbit by a USAF C-119.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 208 kg
- Flight
- 14th
- of 15 Thor Agena A flights
- Date and time
- 18 August 1960, 19:57 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Agena A
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 1W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1960-010
- Launches in 1960
- 19th of 38
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