KH-9-9 Hexagon (OPS 7122 / Big Bird 9), an NRO film-return photoreconnaissance satellite with panoramic optical-bar cameras. Titan IIID from Vandenberg SLC-4E placed the large craft in sun-synchronous LEO on 29 October 1974 for broad-area strategic imaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 10.5 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 22 Titan IIID flights
- Date and time
- 29 October 1974, 19:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIID
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1974-085
- Launches in 1974
- 91st of 113
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