OPS 2423 (KH-7 5 / Gambit-1 Mission 4005), a U.S. Air Force/NRO high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Atlas LV-3A Agena-D from Point Arguello LC-2-3 lofted it on 25 February 1964 into polar LEO for close-look imaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 6th
- of 15 Atlas LV-3 Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 25 February 1964, 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
- 1964-009
- Launches in 1964
- 10th of 100
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