KH-4B mission 7 (OPS 3654), a CIA Corona dual-camera film-return photoreconnaissance satellite launched on a Thorad SLV-2H Agena-D from Vandenberg SLC-3W for area optical imaging, recovered after about a month in LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 750 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 13 Thorad SLV-2H Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 24 July 1969, 01:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Thorad SLV-2H Agena D
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1969-063
- Launches in 1969
- 74th of 125
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