OPS 1388 (KH-4 Corona mission 9062), a U.S. NRO film-return photoreconnaissance satellite with the Pundit 2 (P-11) hitchhiker. Thrust-Augmented Thor Agena-D from Vandenberg lofted it into LEO on 21 December 1963.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 470 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 10th
- of 61 Thor SLV-2A Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 21 December 1963, 21:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor SLV-2A Agena D
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1963-055
- Launches in 1963
- 69th of 69
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