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Blue Scout Jr | OAR 22-5

Vought | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
June 9, 1965, 4:26 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Mission to study the magnetosphere

Suborbital
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Molniya 8K78 | Luna-6

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
June 8, 1965, 7:40 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Ye-6 series probe designed to land on the Moon. Flew past the moon due to its main engine failing to cut-off during a mid-course correction.

Lunar Orbit
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Titan II GLV | Gemini IV

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
June 3, 1965, 3:16 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Gemini 4 was the second crewed mission of the NASA's Project Gemini. The mission was commanded by Command Pilot James A. McDivitt and Pilot Edward H. White II. On the mission, White became the first American to perform a spacewalk. The mission began on June 3, 1965, 15:15:59 UTC and ended on June 7, 1965, 17:12:11 UTC.

Low Earth Orbit
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Thor Delta C | Explorer 28

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
May 29, 1965, noon
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Explorer 28 (IMP 3) was a solar-cell and chemical-battery powered spacecraft instrumented for interplanetary and distant magnetospheric studies of energetic particles, cosmic rays, magnetic fields, and plasmas.

Elliptical Orbit
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Atlas D | OV1-3

Convair | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
May 28, 1965, 2:54 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

The OV1 (Orbiting Vehicle 1) were small research satellite to be launched piggy back on Atlas ICBM test flights. They consisted in general of the OV1 satellite and the OV1-PM propulsion module (or upper stage) to reach orbit.

Low Earth Orbit
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Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | KH-7 18

Convair | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
May 27, 1965, 8:48 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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Voskhod | Zenit-4 7

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
May 25, 1965, 10:50 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-4 film-return reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Saturn I | Pegasus 2

Chrysler | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
May 25, 1965, 7:35 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The mission of the Pegasus spacecraft was to measure meteoroid abundances in the region near the earth.

Low Earth Orbit
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Atlas D | FIRE 2

Convair | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
May 22, 1965, 9:55 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

FIRE (Flight Investigation of Re-Entry) was a high-speed reentry heat research program to obtain data on materials, heating rates, and radio signal attenuation on spacecraft reentering the atmosphere at speeds of about 24,500 miles per hour.

Suborbital
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Thor Burner 1 | OPS 8386

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
May 20, 1965, 4:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The single DSAP-3 (Defense Satellite Application Program Block 3) was a modified DSAP-2 satellite to provide experimental tactical access to weather data.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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