KH-8 7 (Gambit-3 mission 4307, OPS 4886), a U.S. Air Force high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Titan IIIB Agena-D from Vandenberg SLC-4W lofted it on 16 August 1967 for a short-duration low-perigee imaging mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 7th
- of 22 Titan IIIB flights
- Date and time
- 16 August 1967, 17:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIB
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1967-079
- Launches in 1967
- 87th of 139
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