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Discoverer 13
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 10 Aug 1960, 08:37 pm UTC
Rocket: Thor Agena A (Thor)
Provider: United States Air Force
Mission
Type: Government/Top Secret
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 1E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Mission Description
Discoverer 13 was an American optical reconnaissance satellite. The lastof five test flights of the Corona KH-1 spy satellite series. It was the first fully successfuly flight of the Discoverer series. It successfuly jetissoned its payload which was recovered in the Ocean by the Navy.