Discoverer 16 (Corona Mission 9011 / KH-2 1), the first KH-2 film-return photoreconnaissance satellite, launched on the maiden Thor DM-21 Agena-B from Vandenberg on 26 October 1960. The Agena failed to place the payload in orbit and the mission was lost.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- of 40 Thor DM-21 Agena-B flights
- Date and time
- 26 October 1960, 20:26 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor DM-21 Agena-B
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 1W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 1960
- 28th of 38