Discoverer 35 (Corona Mission 9028 / KH-2 10), the last U.S. NRO/CIA KH-2 film-return photoreconnaissance satellite, launched on a Thor DM-21 Agena-B from Vandenberg; film capsule SRV-523 was successfully recovered after about one day.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 315 kg
- Flight
- 20th
- of 40 Thor DM-21 Agena-B flights
- Date and time
- 15 November 1961, 21:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor DM-21 Agena-B
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 1W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1961-030
- Launches in 1961
- 42nd of 50
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