FTV-1133 (KH-4 / Corona Mission 9043), a CIA/NRO film-return photoreconnaissance satellite with dual panoramic cameras for area search, plus failed-to-separate ERS-2 piggyback. Thor DM-21 Agena-B from Vandenberg on 17 September 1962; recovery succeeded despite a capping-shutter malfunction.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 347 kg
- Flight
- 35th
- of 40 Thor DM-21 Agena-B flights
- Date and time
- 17 September 1962, 23:46 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
- 1962-046
- Launches in 1962
- 53rd of 81
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