Discoverer 36 (KH-3 / Corona Mission 9029) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite plus OSCAR 1, the first amateur radio satellite, as a secondary. Thor DM-21 Agena-B from Vandenberg successfully placed both in LEO; OSCAR 1 broadcast 'HI' in Morse for weeks.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 400 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 21st
- of 40 Thor DM-21 Agena-B flights
- Date and time
- 12 December 1961, 20:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor DM-21 Agena-B
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 1W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1961-034
- Launches in 1961
- 48th of 50
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