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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.

Low Earth Orbit
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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.

Low Earth Orbit
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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.

Low Earth Orbit
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Kosmos 11K63 | DS-U2-V 4

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
Feb. 20, 1968, 10:03 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The DS-U2-V satellites were Soviet scientific satellites launched as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik program. They investigated ionospheric phenomenons.

Low Earth Orbit
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Molniya-M | Ye-6LS 112

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Feb. 7, 1968, 10:43 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Luna Ye-6LS was series of lunar orbiters built to test tracking and communications networks for the Soviet crewed lunar program.

Lunar Orbit
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Voskhod | Zenit-4 38

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Feb. 6, 1968, 8 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-4 film-return reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | KH-4A 45

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Jan. 24, 1968, 10:26 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The KH-4A (Keyhole-4A) was the fifth optical reconnaissance satellite version in the Corona-program.

Low Earth Orbit
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