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Titan IIIC | OV2-3
Lockheed Martin | United States of AmericaCape 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
Kosmos-2I 63S1 | DS-P1-Yu 4
Strategic Rocket Forces | RussiaKapustin Yar, Russian Federation
Dec. 21, 1965, 6:14 a.m.
Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-1 3
RKK Energiya | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 17, 1965, 2:20 a.m.
R-36O 8K69 | OGCh 1
Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | UkraineBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 16, 1965, 2:09 p.m.
Thor Delta E | Pioneer 6
McDonnell Douglas | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 16, 1965, 7:31 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Pioneer A to E (Pioneer 6 to 9 after launch) were a series of five solar-orbiting, spin-stabilized, solar-cell and battery-powered satellites designed to obtain measurements of interplanetary phenomena from widely separated points in space on a continuing basis.
Heliocentric N/A
Titan II GLV | Gemini VI-A
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 15, 1965, 1:37 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Gemini 6A was the fifth crewed mission of NASA's Project Gemini. The mission was commanded by Command Pilot Walter M. Schirra, Jr. and Pilot Thomas P. Stafford. The mission achieved the first crewed rendezvous with the Gemini 7 spacecraft. The mission began on December 15, 1965, 13:37:26 UTC and ended on December 16, 1965, 15:28:50 UTC.
Low Earth Orbit
Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 32
RKK Energiya | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 10, 1965, 8:10 a.m.
Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 27
McDonnell Douglas | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 9, 1965, 9:10 p.m.
Scout X-4 | FR-1
Vought | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 6, 1965, 9:05 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The FR 1 (France 1) spacecraft was a small spacecraft carrying two experiments. One was designed to observe VLF signals from earth-based transmitters, and the other was an electron density probe measuring electron concentration at the satellite.
Low Earth OrbitTitan II GLV | Gemini VII
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 4, 1965, 7:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Gemini 7 was the fourth crewed mission of the NASA's Project Gemini. The mission was commanded by Command Pilor Frank F. Borman, II and Pilot James A. Lovell, Jr. The crew spent nearly 14 days in space, and their spacecraft was the passive target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by Gemini 6A. The mission began on December 4, 1965, 19:30:03 UTC and ended on December 18, 1965, 14:05:04 UTC.
Low Earth Orbit
