KH-4 14 (Corona / Mission 9047), a U.S. NRO film-return photoreconnaissance satellite with dual panoramic cameras and a recoverable film capsule. Thor DM-21 Agena-B from Vandenberg lofted it into LEO for Cold War imaging of the Soviet Union.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 350 kg
- Flight
- 38th
- of 40 Thor DM-21 Agena-B flights
- Date and time
- 5 November 1962, 22:04 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
- 1962-063
- Launches in 1962
- 71st of 81
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