NRO OPS 5642 (KH-9-17 Hexagon) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite plus OPS 6553 (SSF-D) ELINT subsatellite, launched on a Titan IIID from Vandenberg SLC-4E into sun-synchronous orbit for U.S. strategic imaging and signals collection.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 11.9 T (est.)
- Flight
- 21st
- of 22 Titan IIID flights
- Date and time
- 11 May 1982, 18:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIID
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1982-041
- Launches in 1982
- 42nd of 129
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