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Atlas SLV-3D Centaur | Intelsat-4A 1

Convair | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Sept. 26, 1975, 12:17 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Geostationary communications satellite developed by Hughes Aircraft Company

Geostationary Orbit
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Soyuz U | Zenit-4MKT 1

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Sept. 25, 1975, 9:49 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Film-return reconnaissance satellite

Low Earth Orbit
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Kosmos-3M | Sfera 14

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Sept. 24, 1975, noon
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Sfera or Geoid series were the first soviet geodetic satellites to improve the accuracy of maps. The development of the satellites started in 1965 at NPO-PM.

Low Earth Orbit
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Voskhod | Zenit-2M 60

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Sept. 23, 1975, 9:59 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The soviet Zenit-2M (Gektor, 11F690) was an improved version of the Zenit-2 area surveillance reconnaissance satellite. It was part of the Vostok-based Zenit-family.

Low Earth Orbit
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Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-1 22 (28L)

RKK Energiya | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Sept. 18, 1975, 12:12 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Meteor-1 series was the first series of Soviet meteorological satellites.

Low Earth Orbit
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Kosmos-3M | Strela-1M 97-104

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Sept. 17, 1975, 7:10 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Military communications satellites

Low Earth Orbit
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Voskhod | Zenit-4MK 50

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Sept. 16, 1975, 9 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

High resolution optical reconnaissance satellite of the Vostok-based Zenit family.

Low Earth Orbit
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Soyuz U | Zenit-4MT 9

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Sept. 12, 1975, 5:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Film-return reconnaissance satellite

Low Earth Orbit
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Titan IIIE | Viking 2

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Sept. 9, 1975, 6:39 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Viking 2 mission was part of the American Viking program to Mars, and consisted of an orbiter and a lander essentially identical to that of the Viking 1 mission. The Viking 2 lander operated on the surface for 1316 days, or 1281 sols, and was turned off on April 11, 1980 when its batteries failed. The orbiter worked until July 25, 1978, returning almost 16,000 images in 706 orbits around Mars.

Heliocentric N/A
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N-I | Kiku-1

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | Japan
Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
Sept. 9, 1975, 5:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Japanese experimental satellite

Low Earth Orbit
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