KH-8 Gambit-3 (Mission 4308, OPS 4941), a high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the US Air Force/NRO. Titan IIIB Agena-D from Vandenberg SLC-4W lofted it on 19 September 1967 into LEO; recovered after about eleven days.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 8th
- of 22 Titan IIIB flights
- Date and time
- 19 September 1967, 18:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIB
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1967-090
- Launches in 1967
- 99th of 139
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