
KH-9 Hexagon #12 (OPS 4699), a U.S. NRO film-return photoreconnaissance satellite, with piggyback Ursula 3 ELINT and S3-3 magnetosphere research payloads. Titan IIID from Vandenberg SLC-4E placed the stack in LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 11.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 12th
- of 22 Titan IIID flights
- Date and time
- 8 July 1976, 18:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIID
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1976-065
- Launches in 1976
- 66th of 131
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