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Discoverer 6
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 19 Aug 1959, 07:24 pm UTC
Rocket: Thor Agena A (Thor)
Provider: United States Air Force
Mission
Type: Government/Top Secret
Orbit: Polar Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 1E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Mission Description
Discoverer 6 was the sixth in a series of reconnaissance satellites, however, it failed to return its capsule when the retrorocket failed to deorbit the capsule.