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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 OrbitTsiklon-2A | US-AO 5
Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | UkraineBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Jan. 25, 1969, 11:14 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
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 OrbitVoskhod | Zenit-4M 2
Soviet Space Program | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Jan. 23, 1969, 9:15 a.m.
Titan IIIB | KH-8 19
Lockheed Martin | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Jan. 22, 1969, 7:10 p.m.
Thor Delta C1 | OSO 5
McDonnell Douglas | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Jan. 22, 1969, 4:48 p.m.
Proton / UR-500 K/D | Soyuz 7K-L1 No.13L
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Jan. 20, 1969, 4:14 a.m.
Soyuz | Soyuz 5
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Jan. 15, 1969, 7:04 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Soyuz 5 mission started with the launch on January 15, 1969, 07:04:57 UTC, carrying Commander Boris Volynov, Flight Engineer Vladislav Volkov and Research Engineer Pyotr Kolodin into orbit. Two days later mission achieved the first ever docking of two crewed spacecrafts, having Soyuz 5 docked with Soyuz 4 spacecraft. Since no connecting tunel had been developed yet, the two cosmonauts had to spacewalk from one vehicle to another. The mission concluded with a hard landing back on Earth on January 18, 1969, 07:59:12 UTC.
Low Earth Orbit
