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Voskhod | Zenit-2 71
Soviet Space Program | RussiaPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Feb. 25, 1969, 10:20 a.m.
Atlas SLV-3C Centaur | Mariner 6
Convair | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Feb. 25, 1969, 1:29 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Mariner 6 and 7 comprised a dual-spacecraft mission to Mars, the sixth and seventh missions in the Mariner series of spacecraft used for planetary exploration in the flyby mode. The primary objectives of the missions were to study the surface and atmosphere of Mars during close flybys to establish the basis for future investigations, particularly those relevant to the search for extraterrestrial life, and to demonstrate and develop technologies required for future Mars missions and other long-duration missions far from the Sun.
Mars flybyN1 | Zond-M 1
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Feb. 21, 1969, 9:18 a.m.
Proton | Luna-15a
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Feb. 19, 1969, 6:48 a.m.
Titan IIIC | TACSAT 1
Lockheed Martin | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Feb. 9, 1969, 9:09 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
TACSAT 1 (also TACOMSAT, Tactical Communications satellite) was the largest and most powerful communications satellite at the time when it was launched into synchronous orbit by a Titan-3C booster 9 February 1969, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The experimental tactical communications satellite was designed and built by Hughes Aircraft Company, under the direction of the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Organization, for the Department of Defense.
Geosynchronous OrbitKosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 18
Strategic Rocket Forces | RussiaPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Feb. 7, 1969, 1:59 p.m.
Thor Delta M | INTELSAT III F-3
McDonnell Douglas | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Feb. 6, 1969, 12:39 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The Intelsat 3 spacecraft were used to relay commercial global telecommunications including live TV. Three of the 8 satellites in the series (F1, F5, F8) were unusable due to launch vehicle failures, and most of the remainder did not achieve their desired lifetimes.
Geostationary OrbitThorad SLV-2G Agena D | KH-4B 6
McDonnell Douglas | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Feb. 5, 1969, 9:59 p.m.
Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-1 11
RKK Energiya | RussiaPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Feb. 1, 1969, 12:11 p.m.
Thor Delta E1 | Isis 1
McDonnell Douglas | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Jan. 30, 1969, 6:46 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
ISIS 1 (International Satellite for Ionosphere Studies) was an ionospheric observatory instrumented with sweep- and fixed-frequency ionosondes, a VLF receiver, energetic and soft particle detectors, an ion mass spectrometer, an electrostatic probe, an electrostatic analyzer, a beacon transmitter, and a cosmic noise experiment.
Elliptical Orbit
