OPS 3123 (KH-9 Hexagon Mission 1216), a U.S. NRO film-return photoreconnaissance satellite, launched on a Titan IIID from Vandenberg SLC-4E into LEO; all film-return capsules recovered successfully through March 1981.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 11.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 19th
- of 22 Titan IIID flights
- Date and time
- 18 June 1980, 18:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIID
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1980-052
- Launches in 1980
- 53rd of 108
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