OPS 6630 (KH-9 Hexagon SV-8 / Big Bird 8), a U.S. Air Force large-format film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Titan IIID from Vandenberg SLC-4E lofted the Lockheed craft on 10 April 1974 into polar LEO for strategic imagery collection.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 10.7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 8th
- of 22 Titan IIID flights
- Date and time
- 10 April 1974, 20:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIID
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1974-020
- Launches in 1974
- 21st of 113
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