Multigroup 1 / Setter 1A (P-770 Mission 7161 / OPS 1584), a U.S. Air Force heavy ferret ELINT/SIGINT satellite on a Thor SLV-2A Agena-D from Vandenberg, mapping Soviet SAM and ABM radars with the new Multigroup multi-band payload.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 600 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 55th
- of 61 Thor SLV-2A Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 29 December 1966, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor SLV-2A Agena D
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1966-118
- Launches in 1966
- 131st of 131
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