KH-7 3 (Gambit-1 Mission 4003 / OPS 2196), an NRO high-resolution film-return reconnaissance satellite launched on an Atlas LV-3A Agena-D from Point Arguello into sun-synchronous LEO for close-look imaging of Soviet targets.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 4th
- of 15 Atlas LV-3 Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 25 October 1963, 18:59 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
- 1963-041
- Launches in 1963
- 53rd of 69
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