SAMOS E-5 No. 2 (Samos 5), a U.S. Air Force film-return optical reconnaissance satellite. Atlas LV-3 Agena-B from Point Arguello reached orbit, but a failed Atlas sustainer cutoff timer burned to propellant depletion and left a higher-than-planned orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 8th
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 22 December 1961, 19:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1961-035
- Launches in 1961
- 50th of 50
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