OPS 0048 (KH-4 18 / Corona Mission 9051), a CIA/NRO film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for broad-area search imaging. Thor DM-21 Agena-D from Vandenberg lofted it on 7 January 1963; attitude-control problems limited spacecraft performance though the film capsule returned.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 369 kg
- Flight
- 9th
- of 13 Thor Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 7 January 1963, 21:09 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Agena D
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1963-002
- Launches in 1963
- 2nd of 69
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