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Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-1 9

RKK Energiya | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 14, 1968, 9:34 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

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Titan IIIB | KH-8 12

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
March 13, 1968, 7:51 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

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Kosmos 11K63 | DS-U1-Ya 1

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
March 6, 1968, 11:02 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Satellite designed to investigate cosmic rays and flows of charged particles in the Earth's magnetosphere.

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Scout B | Explorer 37

Vought | United States of America
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
March 5, 1968, 6:28 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Solar science satellite inserted into an off-nominal orbit.

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Voskhod | Zenit-2 59

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 5, 1968, 12:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-2 film-return and ELINT reconnaissance satellite.

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Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-I 3

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 5, 1968, 11:20 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

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Atlas SLV-3A Agena D | OGO 5

Convair | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
March 4, 1968, 1:06 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The OGO (Orbiting Geophysical Observatory) series was a series of large, complex research satellites.

Elliptical Orbit
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Proton / UR-500 K/D | Zond 4

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 2, 1968, 6:29 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Unknown Mission

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

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Scout A | Transit-O 18

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
March 2, 1968, 3:55 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Transit-O series of satellites that closely followed the design of Transit 5C-1 were also called “Oscars” (Oscar is the phonetic alphabet for “O”, i. e., operational). They were also called NNS (Navy Navigation Satellite) or shortened NavSat.

Polar Orbit
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Kosmos-3M | Sfera 1

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Feb. 20, 1968, 4 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Sfera or Geoid series were the first soviet geodetic satellites to improve the accuracy of maps. The development of the satellites started in 1965 at NPO-PM.

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