OPS 2372 (KH-7 Gambit-1 mission 4004), a U.S. NRO high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Atlas LV-3 Agena-D from Point Arguello lofted it into low Earth orbit on 18 December 1963; the film canister was recovered after about one day on orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 5th
- of 15 Atlas LV-3 Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 18 December 1963, 21:45 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
- 1963-051
- Launches in 1963
- 65th of 69
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