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the flag of USA
Cosmodrome / Location : USA

Date of Cancellation: Jun 26, 1959
Event Type : Launch
Launch Pad / Location : USA Vandenberg SFB (CA)
Manned / Robotic Mission : Robotic
Mission Objective/Type : Failure
 FAILURE 

ou?/where?: au sol - ground
autographe?: non - none

Description : Discoverer 4 was a first generation, low resolution Air Force surveillance satellite launched from Vandenberg AFB aboard a Thor Agena-A rocket. The mission failed because the satellite failed to achieve orbit.
The primary goal of
the program was to develop a film-return photographic surveillance satellite
to assess how rapidly the Soviet Union was producing long-range bombers and ballistic missiles and where they were being deployed, and to take photos over the Sino-Soviet bloc to replace the the U2 spyplanes.

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SPACE REVUE : 02 - 2015

Last modified: 06/09/2015 @ 11h45

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Space Event :

DISCOVERER 4 (KH-1 9001) (SATELLITE) · THOR · FAILURE

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