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Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 18

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Feb. 7, 1969, 1:59 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The DS-P1-Yu series of satellites was used to calibrate space surveillance and early warning radars.

Low Earth Orbit
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Thor Delta M | INTELSAT III F-3

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Cape 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 Orbit
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Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | KH-4B 6

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Feb. 5, 1969, 9:59 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

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Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-1 11

RKK Energiya | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Feb. 1, 1969, 12:11 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

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

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Thor Delta E1 | Isis 1

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg 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 Orbit
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Tsiklon-2A | US-AO 5

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | Ukraine
Baikonur 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 Orbit
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Voskhod | Zenit-4M 2

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Jan. 23, 1969, 9:15 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The soviet Zenit-4M (Rotor, 11F691) was an improved version of the Zenit-4 high resolution reconnaissance satellite and was part of the Vostok-based Zenit-family.

Low Earth Orbit
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Titan IIIB | KH-8 19

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Jan. 22, 1969, 7:10 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

KH-8 or Gambit-3 was the second generation of Gambit high resolution reconnaissance satellites.

Low Earth Orbit
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Thor Delta C1 | OSO 5

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Jan. 22, 1969, 4:48 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

OSO (Orbital Solar Observatory) satellite. Its purpose was to return data on the ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma ray emissions of the sun and galaxy.

Low Earth Orbit
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Proton / UR-500 K/D | Soyuz 7K-L1 No.13L

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Jan. 20, 1969, 4:14 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Unknown Mission

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