OPS 8968 (KH-8 Gambit-3 Mission 4303), an NRO high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Titan IIIB Agena-D from Vandenberg SLC-4W lofted it on 14 December 1966 into LEO; recovered after about eight days. First KH-8 to use ultra-thin base film.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 22 Titan IIIB flights
- Date and time
- 14 December 1966, 18:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIB
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1966-113
- Launches in 1966
- 125th of 131
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