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Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 25

RKK Energiya | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Jan. 11, 1965, 9:29 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-2 film-return and ELINT reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Thor SLV-2A Agena D | Quill 1

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 21, 1964, 7:08 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

This Quill mission was the first radar reconnaissance sat developed by the NRO in the P-40 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) proof-of-concept program.

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Thor Delta C | Explorer 26

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 21, 1964, 9 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Explorer 26 was a spin-stabilized, solar-cell-powered spacecraft instrumented to measure cosmic-ray particles, trapped particles, solar wind protons, and magnetospheric and interplanetary magnetic fields.

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Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 15

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 19, 1964, 9:10 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

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Scout X-4 | San Marco 1

Vought | United States of America
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Dec. 15, 1964, 8:20 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

San Marco 1 was an Italian flight test of the satellite to furnish data on air density and ionosphere characteristics. The Scout-X4 launch vehicle was provided by NASA and was launched with an Italian launch crew from Wallops Island.

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Thor DM-21 Ablestar | Transit-O 2 & 5E-5

United States Air Force | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 13, 1964, 12:08 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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Atlas Centaur | Surveyor Mass Model

Convair | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 11, 1964, 2:25 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Surveyor-Model was a dummy mass onbaord of Centaur AC-4, launched on 11 December 1964, which was to test the closed loop Honeywell guidance system and perform the first restart of cryogenic RL10A-3 engines in space.

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Titan IIIA | Transtage 2

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 10, 1964, 4:53 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Test flights of the cryogenic Transtage stage.

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Kosmos-2I 63S1 | DS-MT 3

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
Dec. 9, 1964, 11 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The DS-MT satellites were a series of Soviet technolgy demonstration satellites launched as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik program.

Low Earth Orbit
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Little Joe II | A-002

Convair | United States of America
White Sands Missile Range
Dec. 8, 1964, 3 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

A-002 was the third abort test of the Apollo spacecraft.

Suborbital
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