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Atlas Agena D | Mariner 3

Convair | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Nov. 5, 1964, 7:22 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Mariner 3 was a 260 kg solar-cell and battery-powered spacecraft designed to make scientific measurements in the vicinity of Mars and to obtain photographs of the planet's surface and transmit these to Earth.

Mars flyby
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Thor SLV-2A Agena D | P-698BK Group 3-D 1

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Nov. 4, 1964, 2:12 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

ELINT/SIGINT satellite

Low Earth Orbit
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Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 13

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Nov. 2, 1964, 9:30 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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Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 24

RKK Energiya | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 28, 1964, 10:40 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-2 film-return and ELINT reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Kosmos-2I 63S1 | DS-MG 2

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
Oct. 24, 1964, 5:17 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

Low Earth Orbit
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Atlas Agena D | KH-7 13

Convair | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 23, 1964, 6:27 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Program 206 satellite, carrying the KH-7 (Keyhole 7) camera system (codenamed Gambit-1), was the first successful high resolution space reconnaissance program. It was managed by NRO's Program A, the USAF-led segment of the National Reconnaissance Program managed from Los Angeles AFB in El Segundo, California.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Kosmos 65S3 | Strela-1 6,7,8

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 23, 1964, 7:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

The Strela-1 satellites were prototype store-dump communications satellites for tactical communication.

Low Earth Orbit
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Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 12

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 17, 1964, 10:02 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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Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 23

RKK Energiya | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 14, 1964, 10 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-2 film-return and ELINT reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Voskhod | Voskhod 1

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 12, 1964, 7:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Voskhod 1 was the seventh manned Soviet space flight(Commander-Vladimir Komarov, Engineer Konstantin Feoktistov, and Medical Doctor Boris Yegorov) . It achieved a number of "firsts" in the history of manned spaceflight, being the first space flight to carry more than one crewman into orbit, the first flight without the use of spacesuits, and the first to carry either an engineer or a physician into outer space. It also set a manned spacecraft altitude record of 336 km (209 mi).

Low Earth Orbit
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