Samos-E6 2 (Samos 8 / FTV-2402), a USAF film-return medium-resolution photoreconnaissance satellite launched on an Atlas LV-3A Agena-B from Point Arguello LC-1-1; the reentry vehicle failed to separate from the Agena after deorbit, so no film was recovered.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 992 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 14th
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 17 June 1962, 18:14 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
- 1962-023
- Launches in 1962
- 29th of 81
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