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Thor Delta C | Explorer 18

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Nov. 27, 1963, 2:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Explorer 18 (IMP 1, Interplanetary Monitoring Platform) was a solar-cell and chemical-battery powered spacecraft instrumented for interplanetary and distant magnetospheric studies of energetic particles, cosmic rays, magnetic fields, and plasmas.

Elliptical Orbit
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Voskhod | Zenit-4 1

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Nov. 16, 1963, 10:34 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-4 film-return reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Molniya 8K78 | Zond-1a

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Nov. 11, 1963, 6:23 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Solar orbiter and earth reentry capsule.

Heliocentric N/A
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Thor SLV-2 Agena D | KH-4 24 & RM 5

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Nov. 9, 1963, 8:27 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

The KH-4 (Keyhole-4) was fourth version in the Corona-program to build an optical reconnaissance satellite. KH-4 24 also carried the RM 5 radiometer payload for background measurements for the MIDAS program.

Low Earth Orbit
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Sputnik 11A59 | Polyot

Energia | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Nov. 1, 1963, 8:56 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Polyot 1 (I1) was a mission to test the propulsion of the I2P coorbital ASAT satellite.

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Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-5 10

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 29, 1963, 9:19 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

KH-5 (Keyhole 5, codenamed Argon) was the area survey component of the Corona program.

Low Earth Orbit
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Atlas Agena D | KH-7 3

Convair | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 25, 1963, 6:59 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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Kosmos-2I 63S1 | DS-A1 4

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
Oct. 24, 1963, 4:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

DS-A1 satellite designed to test techniques and equipment for communication and navigation systems.

Low Earth Orbit
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Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 13

RKK Energiya | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 18, 1963, 9:29 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-2 film-return and ELINT reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Atlas Agena D | Vela 1A & 1B

Convair | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Oct. 17, 1963, 2:37 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Vela (meaning "watchman" in Spanish) series of spacecraft were designed to monitor worldwide compliance with the 1963 nuclear test ban treaty.

Elliptical Orbit
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