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Thor SLV-2 Agena D | Poppy 7A,B,C,D

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
May 31, 1967, 9:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Poppy was the follow-on ELINT system, which succeeded the Grab ELINT satellite system.

Low Earth Orbit
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Scout B | ESRO 2A

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
May 30, 1967, 2:06 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

ESRO 2 (European Space Research Organisation), Iris (International Radiation Investigation Satellite) was a 75 kg spin-stabilized spacecraft. On the launch of ESRO 2A, the third stage vehicle failed and the spacecraft did not achieve orbit.

Polar Orbit
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Molniya 8K78 | Molniya-1 5

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
May 24, 1967, 10:50 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Molniya were Soviet communication satellites operating from an inclined highly elliptical earth orbit of 500 km × 40000 km with 12 hour period for coverage of high northern latitudes.

Elliptical Orbit
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Thor Delta E1 | IMP F

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
May 24, 1967, 2:05 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Satellite instrumented to study interplanetary magnetic fields, energetic particles, and plasma.

Elliptical Orbit
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Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | KH-7 37

Convair | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
May 22, 1967, 6:30 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 29

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
May 22, 1967, 2 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-4 film-return reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Scout A | Transit-O 13

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
May 18, 1967, 9:05 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Transit-O series of satellites that closely followed the design of Transit 5C-1 were also called “Oscars” (Oscar is the phonetic alphabet for “O”, i. e., operational). They were also called NNS (Navy Navigation Satellite) or shortened NavSat.

Polar Orbit
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R-36O 8K69 | OGCh 9

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | Ukraine
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
May 17, 1967, 4:05 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Missile equipped with the 8F021 warhead

Low Earth Orbit
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Molniya-M | Ye-6LS 111

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
May 16, 1967, 9:43 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Luna Ye-6LS was series of lunar orbiters built to test tracking and communications networks for the Soviet crewed lunar program.

Lunar Orbit
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Kosmos-3M | Zaliv-GVM 1

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
May 15, 1967, 11 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Zaliv-GVM satellites were mass models of the Zaliv navigation satellites, which were launched as payload substitutes on some Kosmos-3M evaluation launches.

Low Earth Orbit
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