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Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 31

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
April 7, 1966, 10:02 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

Low Earth Orbit
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Voskhod | Zenit-4 17

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
April 6, 1966, 11:40 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-4 film-return reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Molniya-M | Luna-10

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 31, 1966, 10:46 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Lunar probe which successfully entered lunar orbit on April 3.

Lunar Orbit
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Thor Burner 1 | DSAP-2 F3

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
March 31, 1966, 5:41 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The DSAP-2 (Defense Satellite Application Program Block 2) satellites series consisted of three modified DSAP-1 military meteorological satellites.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Atlas D | OV1-4 & 5

Convair | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
March 30, 1966, 9:20 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
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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Molniya 8K78 | Molniya-1 3a

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 27, 1966, 7:20 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

The Molniya were Soviet communication satellites operating from an inclined highly elliptical earth orbit of 500 km × 40000 km with 12 hour period for coverage of high northern latitudes.

Elliptical Orbit
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Scout A | Transit-O 8

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
March 26, 1966, 3:31 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 Orbit
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UR-500 | Proton 3a

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 24, 1966, 2:39 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

The N-4 series of satellites, a.k.a. Proton-1, carried instruments to study super-high energy cosmic particles.

Low Earth Orbit
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Voskhod | Zenit-4 16

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 21, 1966, 9:40 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-4 film-return reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | KH-7 26

Convair | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
March 18, 1966, 8 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 Orbit
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