KH-7 No.26 (Gambit-1 Mission 4026 / OPS 0879), a U.S. high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite launched on an Atlas-Agena D from Vandenberg with NRL-PL 137 (OPS 0974) piggyback for NRO close-look imaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 19th
- of 48 Atlas SLV-3 Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 18 March 1966, 20:00 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
- 1966-022
- Launches in 1966
- 24th of 131
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