KH-4A mission 1049 (OPS 4740, Corona 130), a CIA film-return photoreconnaissance satellite with secondary OPS 7684 P-801 1 ELINT, launched on a Thorad SLV-2G Agena-D from Vandenberg SLC-3W for area optical imaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 720 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 18th
- of 30 Thorad SLV-2G Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 12 December 1968, 22:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Thorad SLV-2G Agena D
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1968-112
- Launches in 1968
- 121st of 128
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