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Voskhod | Zenit-4 8

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
June 25, 1965, 9:45 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-4 film-return reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Thor DM-21 Ablestar | Transit-O 4

United States Air Force | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
June 24, 1965, 10:35 p.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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Titan IIIC | Transtage 5

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
June 18, 1965, 2 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Test flights of the cryogenic Transtage stage.

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Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 28

RKK Energiya | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
June 15, 1965, 9:43 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-2 film-return and ELINT reconnaissance satellite.

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Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 21

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
June 9, 1965, 9:58 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The KH-4A (Keyhole-4A) was the fifth optical reconnaissance satellite version in the Corona-program.

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Blue Scout Jr | OAR 22-5

Vought | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
June 9, 1965, 4:26 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Mission to study the magnetosphere

Suborbital
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Molniya 8K78 | Luna-6

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
June 8, 1965, 7:40 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Ye-6 series probe designed to land on the Moon. Flew past the moon due to its main engine failing to cut-off during a mid-course correction.

Lunar Orbit
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Titan II GLV | Gemini IV

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
June 3, 1965, 3:16 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Gemini 4 was the second crewed mission of the NASA's Project Gemini. The mission was commanded by Command Pilot James A. McDivitt and Pilot Edward H. White II. On the mission, White became the first American to perform a spacewalk. The mission began on June 3, 1965, 15:15:59 UTC and ended on June 7, 1965, 17:12:11 UTC.

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Thor Delta C | Explorer 28

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
May 29, 1965, noon
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Explorer 28 (IMP 3) was a solar-cell and chemical-battery powered spacecraft instrumented for interplanetary and distant magnetospheric studies of energetic particles, cosmic rays, magnetic fields, and plasmas.

Elliptical Orbit
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Atlas D | OV1-3

Convair | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
May 28, 1965, 2:54 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

The OV1 (Orbiting Vehicle 1) were small research satellite to be launched piggy back on Atlas ICBM test flights. They consisted in general of the OV1 satellite and the OV1-PM propulsion module (or upper stage) to reach orbit.

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