Discoverer 37 (KH-3 / Corona Mission 9030), an NRO/CIA film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Thor DM-21 Agena-B from Vandenberg failed when the Agena restart burn did not occur, so the payload never reached a usable orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 22nd
- of 40 Thor DM-21 Agena-B flights
- Date and time
- 13 January 1962, 21:41 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor DM-21 Agena-B
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 1W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 1962
- 1st of 81