OPS 0627 (KH-6 1 / Lanyard Mission 8001), the first KH-6 high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite, plus Hitchhiker 1 (P-11) ELINT piggyback. Thrust-Augmented Thor SLV-2A Agena-D from Vandenberg on 18 March 1963 failed to reach orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 61 Thor SLV-2A Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 18 March 1963, 21:13 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor SLV-2A Agena D
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 1W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 1963
- 8th of 69