OPS 3014 (KH-8 Gambit-3 Mission 4301), the first KH-8 high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the NRO. Titan IIIB from Vandenberg SLC-4W lofted it on 29 July 1966 into LEO; film recovered after about eight days.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 22 Titan IIIB flights
- Date and time
- 29 July 1966, 18:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIB
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1966-069
- Launches in 1966
- 76th of 131
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