Discoverer 9

Mission

Discoverer 9

Type: Government/Top Secret

Discoverer 9 was an American optical reconnaissance satellite, the sixth of ten operational flights of the Corona KH-1 spy satellite series, and the first of them to be equipped with a new, vacuum-proof, polyester-based film. The satellite was not successfully orbited.

Location

Space Launch Complex 1W

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

703 rockets have launched from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA.