Samos 6, a USAF SAMOS photoreconnaissance satellite for optical imaging, launched on an Atlas LV-3A Agena-B from Point Arguello LC-1-2 on 7 March 1962. The spacecraft reached orbit, but recovery of its film-return capsule failed, ending the SAMOS film-return programme line.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 10th
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 7 March 1962, 22:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1962-007
- Launches in 1962
- 9th of 81
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