KH-8 42 (Gambit-3 Mission 4342, OPS 1776), a U.S. NRO high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Titan 24B/Agena-D from Vandenberg SLC-4W placed the craft in polar LEO for a ~47-day imaging mission with air-recovered film capsules.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 11th
- of 23 Titan 24B flights
- Date and time
- 6 June 1974, 16:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan 24B
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1974-042
- Launches in 1974
- 45th of 113
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