OPS 2243 (KH-4A Corona mission 1045) with Tivoli 1 ELINT piggyback, a CIA film-return photoreconnaissance satellite launched on a Thorad-SLV2G Agena-D from Vandenberg SLC-1E for optical imaging and signals intelligence from low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 745 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 9th
- of 30 Thorad SLV-2G Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 24 January 1968, 22:26 UTC
- Rocket
- Thorad SLV-2G Agena D
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 1E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1968-008
- Launches in 1968
- 8th of 128
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