Discoverer 14

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 18 Aug 1960, 07:57 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 1W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Mission Description

Discoverer 14 was an American optical reconnaissance satellite. It was the first fully successful flight of the Discoverer series which returned film. The capsule was recovered mid air by an aircraft