KH-8 Gambit-3 Mission 4306 (OPS 4282), a high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the US Air Force/NRO. Titan IIIB Agena-D from Vandenberg SLC-4W lofted it on 20 June 1967 into LEO for a ~10-day mission; success helped end the remaining KH-7 Gambit-1 program.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 6th
- of 22 Titan IIIB flights
- Date and time
- 20 June 1967, 16:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIB
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1967-064
- Launches in 1967
- 70th of 139
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