OPS 1266 (KH-4 23 / Corona 67, Mission 9057), a CIA/NRO Corona film-return photoreconnaissance satellite with dual Mural panoramic cameras for stereo imaging. Thor-DM21 Agena-D from Vandenberg lofted it on 19 July 1963 into polar LEO for broad-area search of Soviet targets.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 333 kg
- Flight
- 13th
- of 13 Thor Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 19 July 1963, 00:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Agena D
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1963-029
- Launches in 1963
- 38th of 69
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