SAMOS E-6 No. 3 (Samos 9 / FTV-2403), a U.S. Air Force film-return optical reconnaissance satellite. Atlas LV-3 Agena-B from Point Arguello reached LEO, but the spacecraft failed to deorbit cleanly and recovery was unsuccessful.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 15th
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 18 July 1962, 20:51 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
- 1962-030
- Launches in 1962
- 36th of 81
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