United States Air Force

KH-8 5

Titan IIIB

FAILURE

Failure

Wednesday, April 26, 1967 · 18:00 UTC

Mission

/01

KH-8 or Gambit-3 was the second generation of Gambit high resolution reconnaissance satellites.

Mission Type

Government/Top Secret

Orbit

Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Failure

/02

Rocket

Variant: IIIB

Launch Pad

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

34.633° N, 120.616° W

Pad Launches

258

Location Launches

392

Agency Launches

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