OPS 3497 (KH-4A Corona mission 1010), a U.S. NRO film-return photoreconnaissance satellite with dual recovery vehicles SRV 644 and 652. Thrust-Augmented Thor Agena-D from Vandenberg lofted it into LEO on 14 September 1964 for area-search imagery.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 576 kg
- Flight
- 23rd
- of 61 Thor SLV-2A Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 14 September 1964, 22:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor SLV-2A Agena D
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1964-056
- Launches in 1964
- 66th of 100
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