
OPS 1508 (KH-4A Corona mission 1032), a U.S. NRO film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Thor SLV-2A Agena-D from Vandenberg on 3 May 1966 failed to achieve orbit, destroying the KH-4A payload and both film recovery capsules.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 50th
- of 61 Thor SLV-2A Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 3 May 1966, 19:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor SLV-2A Agena D
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 1E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 1966
- 41st of 131
