SAMOS E-6 No.5 (Samos 11), a U.S. Air Force Program 201 film-return photoreconnaissance satellite with a large recovery vehicle, plus secondary TRS 1. Atlas LV-3 Agena-B from Point Arguello lofted it into polar LEO for high-resolution imaging trials.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 20th
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 11 November 1962, 20:17 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
- 1962-064
- Launches in 1962
- 72nd of 81
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