Advanced Vela pair Vela 7 and Vela 8 (OPS 6638/6679), U.S. nuclear-test detection satellites monitoring X-ray, gamma, and neutron signatures from high orbits, with piggybacks ORS 4 and OV5-1/OV5-3. Titan IIIC from Cape Canaveral LC-41 launched them on 28 April 1967.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 706 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 8th
- of 36 Titan IIIC flights
- Date and time
- 28 April 1967, 10:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIC
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1967-040
- Launches in 1967
- 44th of 139
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