KH-9 Hexagon 3 (Mission 1203, OPS 7293), a U.S. NRO wide-area film-return photoreconnaissance satellite with four recoverable capsules, plus secondary ELINT subsatellite Ursala 1 (OPS 7803). Titan IIID from Vandenberg SLC-4E lofted the ~11 t pair into polar LEO on 7 July 1972.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 9.1 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 22 Titan IIID flights
- Date and time
- 7 July 1972, 17:46 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIID
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1972-052
- Launches in 1972
- 55th of 113
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