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Soyuz 11A510 | US-AO 1
Energia | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 27, 1965, 10:24 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
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 OrbitThor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 28
McDonnell Douglas | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 24, 1965, 9:06 p.m.
Scout A | Transit-O 6
Vought | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 22, 1965, 4:33 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 OrbitTitan IIIC | OV2-3
Lockheed Martin | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 21, 1965, 2 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The OV2 (Orbiting Vehicle 2) series satellites were originally built for project ARENTS (Advanced Research Environmental Test Satellite), which was intended to obtain supporting data for the Vela program. After the cancellation of the ARENTS program, the already built hardware was reused for OV2, a low-cost series of experimental satellites, which were to be launched for free on Titan-3C test flights to very different orbits.
Elliptical Orbit
Kosmos-2I 63S1 | DS-P1-Yu 4
Strategic Rocket Forces | RussiaKapustin Yar, Russian Federation
Dec. 21, 1965, 6:14 a.m.
Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-1 3
RKK Energiya | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 17, 1965, 2:20 a.m.
R-36O 8K69 | OGCh 1
Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | UkraineBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 16, 1965, 2:09 p.m.
Thor Delta E | Pioneer 6
McDonnell Douglas | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 16, 1965, 7:31 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.
Heliocentric N/A
Titan II GLV | Gemini VI-A
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 15, 1965, 1:37 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Gemini 6A was the fifth crewed mission of NASA's Project Gemini. The mission was commanded by Command Pilot Walter M. Schirra, Jr. and Pilot Thomas P. Stafford. The mission achieved the first crewed rendezvous with the Gemini 7 spacecraft. The mission began on December 15, 1965, 13:37:26 UTC and ended on December 16, 1965, 15:28:50 UTC.
Low Earth OrbitVostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 32
RKK Energiya | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 10, 1965, 8:10 a.m.
