OPS 7616 (Gambit-3 4333 / KH-8), an NRO high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite with two SRVs. Titan III(24)B from Vandenberg SLC-4W placed the craft in LEO for optical imaging; main bus deorbited about 17 November.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 23 Titan 24B flights
- Date and time
- 23 October 1971, 17:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan 24B
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1971-092
- Launches in 1971
- 101st of 133
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