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Voskhod | Zenit-4 13

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 16, 1965, 8:14 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-4 film-return reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Titan IIIC | OV2-1

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Oct. 15, 1965, 5:23 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.

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X-15 | Flight 153

North American Aviation | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Oct. 14, 1965, 8:47 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Flight 153 of the North American X-15 was a test flight conducted by NASA and the US Air Force in 1965. Piloted by Joe H. Engle it reached an altitude of 81.1 km.

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Thor SLV-2A Agena D | OGO 2

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 14, 1965, 1:11 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The OGO (Orbiting Geophysical Observatory) series was a series of large, complex research satellites.

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Molniya 8K78 | Molniya-1 2

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 14, 1965, 6 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
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.

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Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 25

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 5, 1965, 5:45 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

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Atlas D | OV1-2

Convair | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 5, 1965, 9:07 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-M | Luna-7

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 4, 1965, 7:36 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Ye-6 series probe designed to land on the Moon. Impacted the Moon due to a loss of attitude control during the descent towards the surface.

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Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | KH-7 22

Convair | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Sept. 30, 1965, 7:23 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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X-15 | Flight 150

North American Aviation | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Sept. 28, 1965, 6:08 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Flight 150 of the North American X-15 was a test flight conducted by NASA and the US Air Force in 1965. Piloted by John B. McKay it reached an altitude of 90.0 km.

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