OPS 1890 (KH-7 Gambit Mission 4035), an NRO high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D from Vandenberg SLC-4E lofted it on 5 December 1966 into LEO; film recovered after about nine days.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 38th
- of 48 Atlas SLV-3 Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 5 December 1966, 21:09 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
- 1966-109
- Launches in 1966
- 120th of 131
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