KH-8 Gambit-3 #46 (OPS 7600), a U.S. NRO high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Titan 24B from Vandenberg SLC-4W placed the craft in polar LEO for close-look imaging of Soviet and other strategic targets.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 15th
- of 23 Titan 24B flights
- Date and time
- 22 March 1976, 18:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan 24B
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1976-027
- Launches in 1976
- 28th of 131
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