Declassified Preliminary Flight Summary of CORONA 9050 (pdf)
Declassified Photographic Evaluation Report (pdf)
Declassified Flight Data Book (pdf)
USGS Archive of Declassified Satellite Imagery
Details about the Keyhole-4 satellite
National Reconnaissance Office History of the CORONA Program (pdf, starting on page 11)
Declassified: Documentation of the Agena space missile (pdf)
Book: The CORONA Story (pdf)
Details of a CORONA tracking station
Declassified retrospective of the CORONA Program (pdf)
Declassified history of satellite reconnaissance (pdf)
Global-Scale Archaeological Prospection using CORONA Satellite Imagery
CORONA 9050
AKA: 1962 Beta Phi 1, KH-4 9050, 1962-69A, 00505
Satellite: Keyhole 4 (KH-4)
Launch
Rocket: Thor Augmented Delta-Agena D
Date: December 14, 1962
Location: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA
Mass: 1500 kg
Orbit
Info from the declassified reports rather than public pages
Period: 90.49 minutes
Inclination: 70.95° North
Eccentricity: 0.0148
Perigee: 108 NM
Apogee: 215 NM
Perigee Lat.: 17.3° N
Recovery Orbit: 65
Recovery Date: Dec. 18, 1962
CIA Documentary on the CORONA Program
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