Discoverer 15 (Corona Mission 9010 / KH-1 9010), a CIA/NRO film-return photoreconnaissance satellite, launched on a Thor Agena-A from Vandenberg on 13 September 1960. It reached polar orbit, but the film-return capsule sank at sea before recovery and no imagery was retrieved.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 220 kg
- Flight
- 15th
- of 15 Thor Agena A flights
- Date and time
- 13 September 1960, 22:13 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Agena A
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 1E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1960-012
- Launches in 1960
- 22nd of 38
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