Failed KH-8 Gambit-3 Mission 4335 (OPS 6574), a U.S. high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Titan 24B Agena-D from Vandenberg SLC-4W lost the craft when an Agena pneumatic regulator failed, preventing orbit insertion; debris later fell over the UK.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 4th
- of 23 Titan 24B flights
- Date and time
- 20 May 1972, 15:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan 24B
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 1972
- 40th of 113