Discoverer 39 (KH-4 2 / Corona Mission 9032), a CIA/NRO film-return photoreconnaissance satellite with dual panoramic cameras, launched on a Thor DM-21 Agena-B from Vandenberg on 18 April 1962. Last spacecraft to carry a Discoverer cover name; the SRV recovered successfully.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 327 kg
- Flight
- 25th
- of 40 Thor DM-21 Agena-B flights
- Date and time
- 18 April 1962, 00:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor DM-21 Agena-B
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 1E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1962-011
- Launches in 1962
- 13th of 81
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