OPS 1166 (KH-8-51 / Gambit-3 Mission 4351), a high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the NRO, launched on a Titan 24B Agena-D from Vandenberg SLC-4W into sun-synchronous low Earth orbit; deorbited about 20 June 1981.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T (est.)
- Flight
- 20th
- of 23 Titan 24B flights
- Date and time
- 28 February 1981, 19:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan 24B
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1981-019
- Launches in 1981
- 20th of 126
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