OPS 8261 (KH-9 Hexagon Mission 1206 / KH-9 6), an NRO/CIA wide-area film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Titan IIID from Vandenberg SLC-4E placed the Big Bird craft in sun-synchronous LEO for a ~91-day imaging mission ending 12 October 1973.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 9.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 6th
- of 22 Titan IIID flights
- Date and time
- 13 July 1973, 20:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIID
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1973-046
- Launches in 1973
- 51st of 116
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