OPS 5236 (KH-7 Gambit-1 mission 4018), a U.S. NRO high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D from Vandenberg PALC-2-4 placed it in near-polar LEO on 27 May 1965 for close-look imaging; the recovery capsule returned after about five days.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 9th
- of 48 Atlas SLV-3 Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 27 May 1965, 20:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3 Agena D
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1965-041
- Launches in 1965
- 46th of 124
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