December 26,1962

 https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/roundups/issues/62-12-26.pdf

The McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of space

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Corona 44

  1962-026

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KH-4 Mission 9037 was launched on 1962 Jun 23 by Thor Agena B from Vandenberg. It reached a 213 x 293 km x 75.1 deg orbit, lower than planned. The satellite carried the MURAL camera system and the Space Radio Project to measure celestial diffuse radio emission. To this point the HSRP flights detected only terrestrial interference. FTV 1129 also carried a number of ionospheric experiments which were intended to study the effects of the FISHBOWL atmospheric nuclear tests . The SRV was recovered after a two day flight.

KH-4 Mission 9037
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1962 Jun 23	0030:47	Launch by Thor Agena B	V Pad 4
	0032	Thor MECO (T+2:28)
	0032	Thor VECO (T+2:37)
	0032	Thor sep (T+2:47)
	0033	Agena burn (T+3:14)
	0037:57	Agena cutoff (T+7:10)	209 x 315 x ? (VCR)
1962 Jun 23	0428		89.65 199 x 314 x 75.18
1962 Jun 26	0228?	SRV ejected
1962 Jun 26	0241?	SRV recovered over Pacific on rev 49
1962 Jun			89.6 199 x 314 x 75.1 (SATCAT)
1962 Jun 27	1200		89.58 213 x 293 x 75.1 (RAE)
1962 Jun 29	2010		89.27 209 x 267 x 75.1
1962 Jul 3	2130		88.82 209 x 222 x 75.1 (RAE)
1962 Jul			88.2 187 x 187 x 75.1 (SATCAT)
1962 Jul 5	2253		88.24 187 x 187 x 75.1
1962 Jul 7		Last ionosphere data
1962 Jul 7	1700?	CORONA/Agena reentered