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Little Joe II | A-004
Convair | United States of AmericaWhite Sands Missile Range
Jan. 20, 1966, 3:17 p.m.
Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | KH-7 24
Convair | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Jan. 19, 1966, 8:03 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 OrbitVostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 33
RKK Energiya | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Jan. 7, 1966, 8:20 a.m.
Thor Burner 1 | DSAP-2 F2
McDonnell Douglas | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Jan. 7, 1966, 4:48 a.m.
Kosmos 65S3 | Strela-2 1
Strategic Rocket Forces | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 28, 1965, 12:30 p.m.
Kosmos-2I 63S1 | DS-K-40 1
Strategic Rocket Forces | RussiaKapustin Yar, Russian Federation
Dec. 28, 1965, 8:10 a.m.
Soyuz 11A510 | US-AO 1
Energia | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 27, 1965, 10:24 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
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 OrbitThor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 28
McDonnell Douglas | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 24, 1965, 9:06 p.m.
Scout A | Transit-O 6
Vought | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 22, 1965, 4:33 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 OrbitTitan 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
