KH-8 Gambit-3 (Mission 4318, OPS 6518), a U.S. high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the NRO/USAF. Titan IIIB Agena-D from Vandenberg SLC-4W lofted it on 4 December 1968; a Titan second-stage burn-to-depletion put it into an unusually high apogee, and the ~8-day mission still returned imagery.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 18th
- of 22 Titan IIIB flights
- Date and time
- 4 December 1968, 19:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIB
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1968-108
- Launches in 1968
- 117th of 128
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