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Thor Burner 1 | DSAP-2 F2

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Jan. 7, 1966, 4:48 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

The DSAP-2 (Defense Satellite Application Program Block 2) satellites series consisted of three modified DSAP-1 military meteorological satellites.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Kosmos 65S3 | Strela-2 1

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 28, 1965, 12:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Strela-2 satellites were prototypes of the second component of the Strela store-dump communication system. It consisted of larger single satellites.

Low Earth Orbit
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Kosmos-2I 63S1 | DS-K-40 1

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
Dec. 28, 1965, 8:10 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

DS-K-40 was a series of experimental ELINT satellites developed by Yuzhnoye to test technologies for the Tselina-O program.

Low Earth Orbit
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Soyuz 11A510 | US-AO 1

Energia | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 27, 1965, 10:24 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

US-A (Upravlenniye Sputnik Aktivny) were active radar satellites for ocean surveillance. The high power consumtion of the active radar required a nuclear reactor as power source. The satellites were known as RORSAT in the west. The US-AO series consisted of satellites, which tested all the system components but the nuclear reactor. They were battery powered.

Low Earth Orbit
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Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 28

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 24, 1965, 9:06 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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Scout A | Transit-O 6

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 22, 1965, 4:33 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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Titan IIIC | OV2-3

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 21, 1965, 2 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The OV2 (Orbiting Vehicle 2) series satellites were originally built for project ARENTS (Advanced Research Environmental Test Satellite), which was intended to obtain supporting data for the Vela program. After the cancellation of the ARENTS program, the already built hardware was reused for OV2, a low-cost series of experimental satellites, which were to be launched for free on Titan-3C test flights to very different orbits.

Elliptical Orbit
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Kosmos-2I 63S1 | DS-P1-Yu 4

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
Dec. 21, 1965, 6:14 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

Low Earth Orbit
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Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-1 3

RKK Energiya | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 17, 1965, 2:20 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

Low Earth Orbit
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R-36O 8K69 | OGCh 1

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | Ukraine
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 16, 1965, 2:09 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Missile equipped with the 8F021 warhead

Suborbital
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