Discoverer 26 (Corona Mission 9019 / KH-2 6), a CIA/NRO film-return photoreconnaissance satellite, launched on a Thor DM-21 Agena-B from Vandenberg on 7 July 1961. SRV 511 was successfully recovered on 10 July after about three days on orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 315 kg
- Flight
- 11th
- of 40 Thor DM-21 Agena-B flights
- Date and time
- 7 July 1961, 23:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor DM-21 Agena-B
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 1E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1961-016
- Launches in 1961
- 22nd of 50
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