KH-4B Mission 1116 (Corona 144 / OPS 5640), a U.S. Air Force film-return photoreconnaissance satellite launched on a Thorad SLV-2H Agena-D from Vandenberg; very successful with good image quality.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 750 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 12th
- of 13 Thorad SLV-2H Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 19 April 1972, 21:43 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
- 1972-032
- Launches in 1972
- 33rd of 113
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