OPS 1467 (KH-7 1 / Gambit-1 Mission 4001), the first orbital KH-7 high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite (after a pre-launch Atlas collapse destroyed an earlier vehicle). Atlas LV-3A Agena-D from Point Arguello LC-2-3 lofted it on 12 July 1963 into sun-synchronous LEO for close-look imaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 15 Atlas LV-3 Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 12 July 1963, 20:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena D
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1963-028
- Launches in 1963
- 37th of 69
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