KH-8 41 (Gambit-3 Mission 4341, OPS 6889), a U.S. NRO high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Titan 24B/Agena-D from Vandenberg SLC-4W placed the craft in retrograde polar LEO for a ~32-day imaging mission with air-recovered film capsules.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 10th
- of 23 Titan 24B flights
- Date and time
- 13 February 1974, 18:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan 24B
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1974-007
- Launches in 1974
- 8th of 113
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