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Discoverer 5
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 13 Aug 1959, 07:00 pm UTC
Rocket: Thor Agena A (Thor)
Provider: United States Air Force
Mission
Type: Government/Top Secret
Orbit: Polar Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 1W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Mission Description
Discoverer 5 was the fifth in a series of reconnaissance satellites, however, it failed to return its capsule when it was accidentally sent into a higher orbit.