KH-4 9 (Corona 47 / Mission 9040 / FTV-1131), an NRO/CIA film-return photoreconnaissance satellite with the NEW JERSEY AFTRACK experiment. Thor DM-21 Agena-B from Vandenberg lofted it into LEO; recovered images were severely degraded by radiation and static.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 339 kg
- Flight
- 33rd
- of 40 Thor DM-21 Agena-B flights
- Date and time
- 28 July 1962, 00:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor DM-21 Agena-B
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 1W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1962-032
- Launches in 1962
- 39th of 81
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