OPS 1947 (KH-7 2 / Gambit-1 Mission 4002), a U.S. Air Force/NRO high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for close-look imaging of Soviet targets. Atlas LV-3A Agena-D from Point Arguello LC-2-3 lofted it on 6 September 1963 into sun-synchronous LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 15 Atlas LV-3 Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 6 September 1963, 19:30 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
- 1963-036
- Launches in 1963
- 46th of 69
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