Discoverer 24 (Corona KH-5 Argon mission 9018A), a U.S. area-survey optical reconnaissance satellite with film-return capsule SRV-541. Thor flight was normal, but the Agena-B suffered a power failure after staging, tumbled on a ballistic path, and impacted the Pacific without reaching orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 9th
- of 40 Thor DM-21 Agena-B flights
- Date and time
- 8 June 1961, 21:16 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 1961
- 18th of 50