KH-8 36 (Gambit-3 Mission 4336 / OPS 8888), a U.S. Air Force high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite launched on a Titan 24B Agena-D from Vandenberg; primary mission lasted about 27 days.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 5th
- of 23 Titan 24B flights
- Date and time
- 1 September 1972, 17:36 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan 24B
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1972-068
- Launches in 1972
- 72nd of 113
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