OPS 8709 (KH-9 Hexagon Mission 1201), the first Big Bird film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the NRO, with four recoverable SRVs. Maiden flight of Titan IIID from Vandenberg SLC-4E; SRV-1 water recovery and SRV-3 parachute loss marked partial film-bucket outcomes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 9.4 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 22 Titan IIID flights
- Date and time
- 15 June 1971, 18:41 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIID
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1971-056
- Launches in 1971
- 60th of 133
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