KH-9 5 (Hexagon 5 / Mission 1205 / OPS 8410), a U.S. NRO film-return photoreconnaissance satellite, the fifth Hexagon Big Bird wide-area mapper. Titan IIID from Vandenberg SLC-4E lofted the craft into a near-polar LEO on 9 March 1973 for a roughly two-month imaging mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 9.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 5th
- of 22 Titan IIID flights
- Date and time
- 9 March 1973, 21:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIID
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1973-014
- Launches in 1973
- 14th of 116
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