KH-8 Gambit-3 Mission 4302 (OPS 4096), the second U.S. high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite of the Gambit-3 series, launched on a Titan IIIB from Vandenberg for NRO close-look optical imaging of denied territory.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 22 Titan IIIB flights
- Date and time
- 28 September 1966, 19:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIB
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1966-086
- Launches in 1966
- 97th of 131
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