KH-9 Hexagon mission 1218 (OPS 0721), a U.S. film-return photoreconnaissance satellite with a secondary P-801 payload, launched on a Titan 34D from Vandenberg into polar low Earth orbit for broad-area optical intelligence.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 11.7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 7 Titan 34D flights
- Date and time
- 20 June 1983, 18:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan 34D
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1983-060
- Launches in 1983
- 61st of 129
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