OPS 1184 (KH-7 Gambit-1 mission 4025), a U.S. NRO high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite, with Bluebell 2 cylinder and sphere radar-calibration hitchhikers. Atlas-SLV3 Agena-D from Vandenberg lofted the stack on 15 February 1966; film recovered days later.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 17th
- of 48 Atlas SLV-3 Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 15 February 1966, 20:30 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
- 1966-012
- Launches in 1966
- 13th of 131
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