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Titan IIIB | KH-8 15

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Aug. 6, 1968, 4:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

Low Earth Orbit
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Atlas SLV-3A Agena D | Canyon 1

Convair | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Aug. 6, 1968, 11:08 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Canyon was the first series of NRO's near geostationary ELINT/SIGINT satellites launched under the designation AFP-827 or Program 7500 for NRO's Program A. They were focussed on communications intelligence (COMINT).

Geostationary Orbit
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Voskhod | Zenit-4 45

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
July 30, 1968, 7 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-4 film-return reconnaissance satellite.

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Proton / UR-500 K/D | Soyuz 7K-L1 No.8L

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
July 21, 1968, midnight
Status: Launch Failure
Unknown Mission

There are no mission or payload details available for this launch.

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Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 15

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
July 18, 1968, 7:59 p.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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Voskhod | Zenit-4 44

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
July 16, 1968, 1:10 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-4 film-return reconnaissance satellite.

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Atlas F | OV1-15

Convair | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
July 11, 1968, 7:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The OV1 (Orbiting Vehicle 1) were small research satellite to be launched piggy back on Atlas ICBM test flights. They consisted in general of the OV1 satellite and the OV1-PM propulsion module (or upper stage) to reach orbit.

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Voskhod | Zenit-2 63

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
July 10, 1968, 7:49 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-2 film-return and ELINT reconnaissance satellite.

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Molniya-M | Molniya-1 9

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
July 5, 1968, 3:25 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Molniya were Soviet communication satellites operating from an inclined highly elliptical earth orbit of 500 km × 40000 km with 12 hour period for coverage of high northern latitudes.

Elliptical Orbit
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Kosmos 11K63 | DS-U3-S 2

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
July 5, 1968, 6:59 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The DS-U3-S satellites were Soviet scientific satellites launched as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik program. They were used to conduct multispectral imaging of the Sun.

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