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Tsiklon-2 | US-A 5

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | Ukraine
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
April 25, 1973, 9:10 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Active radar satellite for ocean surveillance powered by a nuclear reactor.

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Delta 1914 | Anik A2

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
April 20, 1973, 11:47 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Geosynchronous communications satellite developed by Hughes Aircraft Company.

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Kosmos 11K63 | DS-U2-IK 3 & Kopernik-500

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
April 19, 1973, 10:19 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Satellite designed to investigate the charged particle flows and ionosphere.

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Voskhod | Zenit-4MK 11

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
April 19, 1973, 8:59 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

High resolution optical reconnaissance satellite of the Vostok-based Zenit family.

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Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 61

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
April 12, 1973, 11:49 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The DS-P1-Yu series of satellites was used to calibrate space surveillance and early warning radars.

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Atlas SLV-3D Centaur | Pioneer 11

Convair | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
April 6, 1973, 2:11 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Probe sent to the outer solar system

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Molniya-M | Molniya-2 5

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
April 5, 1973, 11:11 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Government communications satellite.

Elliptical Orbit
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Proton | Salyut-2

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
April 3, 1973, 9 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Second crewed space station

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Voskhod | Zenit-2M 36

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 22, 1973, 10 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The soviet Zenit-2M (Gektor, 11F690) was an improved version of the Zenit-2 area surveillance reconnaissance satellite. It was part of the Vostok-based Zenit-family.

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Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-1 14 (29L)

RKK Energiya | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 20, 1973, 11:20 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Meteor-1 series was the first series of Soviet meteorological satellites.

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