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Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 17

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Dec. 3, 1968, 2:52 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

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Kosmos-3M | Sfera 3

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Nov. 30, 1968, 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.

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Europa I | STV 1

European Launcher Development Organisation | France
RAAF Woomera Range Complex
Nov. 29, 1968, 11:12 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

STV (Satellite Test Vehicle) was a series of vehicle evaluation payloads built for the test flights of the Europa-1 rocket.

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Voskhod | Zenit-2 68

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Nov. 29, 1968, 12:40 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-2 film-return and ELINT reconnaissance satellite.

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Voskhod | Zenit-4 50

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Nov. 21, 1968, 12:10 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-4 film-return reconnaissance satellite.

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Proton | Proton-4

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Nov. 16, 1968, 11:40 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Satellite designed to study the interaction of elementary particles with energies in excess of 1012 eV up to 1015 eV.

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Voskhod | Zenit-2 67

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Nov. 13, 1968, noon
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-2 film-return and ELINT reconnaissance satellite.

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Proton / UR-500 K/D | Zond 6

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Nov. 10, 1968, 7:11 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Unknown Mission

There are no mission or payload details available for this launch.

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Thor Delta E1 | Pioneer 9

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Nov. 8, 1968, 9:46 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Pioneer A to E (Pioneer 6 to 9 after launch) were a series of five solar-orbiting, spin-stabilized, solar-cell and battery-powered satellites designed to obtain measurements of interplanetary phenomena from widely separated points in space on a continuing basis.

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Titan IIIB | KH-8 17

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Nov. 6, 1968, 7:10 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

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