OPS 3592 (KH-7 Gambit-1 mission 4008), a U.S. NRO high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Atlas LV-3A Agena-D from Point Arguello placed it in near-polar LEO on 19 May 1964 for close-look imaging; the recovery capsule returned after about three days.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 9th
- of 15 Atlas LV-3 Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 19 May 1964, 19:21 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
- 1964-024
- Launches in 1964
- 30th of 100
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