FTV-2401 (Samos 7 / Samos-E6 1 / AFP-201 PVP-851), a USAF film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for optical imagery. Atlas LV-3A Agena-B from Point Arguello LC-1-1 on 26 April 1962 placed it in low Earth orbit; it decayed the next day after the recovery sequence.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 992 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 13th
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 26 April 1962, 18:56 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1962-016
- Launches in 1962
- 19th of 81
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