KH-8 Gambit-3 (Mission 4315, OPS 5187), a U.S. high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the NRO/USAF. Titan IIIB Agena-D from Vandenberg SLC-4W lofted it on 6 August 1968 into LEO for optical imaging; about a 9–14 day mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 15th
- of 22 Titan IIIB flights
- Date and time
- 6 August 1968, 16:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIB
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1968-064
- Launches in 1968
- 70th of 128
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