Samos-E2 1 (Samos 3), a USAF electro-optical photoreconnaissance satellite with a 0.9 m E-2 steerable camera, launched on an Atlas LV-3A Agena-B from Point Arguello LC-1-1 on 9 September 1961. The booster shut down almost at liftoff and fell back through the pad, exploding and destroying the payload.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 4th
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 9 September 1961, 19:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Unknown
- Launches in 1961
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