KH-8 Gambit-3 mission 4316 (OPS 5247), a USAF high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite launched on a Titan IIIB Agena-D from Vandenberg SLC-4W for detailed military optical imaging from low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 16th
- of 22 Titan IIIB flights
- Date and time
- 10 September 1968, 18:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIB
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1968-074
- Launches in 1968
- 81st of 128
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