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Titan IIID | KH-9 5

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
March 9, 1973, 9 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Large reconnaissance satellite equipped with four return capsules.

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Atlas SLV-3A Agena D | Aquacade 2

Convair | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
March 6, 1973, 9:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Geostationary signals intelligence satellite (TELINT).

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Voskhod | Zenit-4M 47

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 6, 1973, 9:20 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The soviet Zenit-4M (Rotor, 11F691) was an improved version of the Zenit-4 high resolution reconnaissance satellite and was part of the Vostok-based Zenit-family.

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Voskhod | Zenit-4MK 10

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 1, 1973, 12:40 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

High resolution optical reconnaissance satellite of the Vostok-based Zenit family.

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Kosmos-3M | Tselina-O 18

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Feb. 28, 1973, 4:37 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Tselina-O (11F616) was one component of two-satellite Tselina ELINT satellite system. Tselina-O provided general ELINT surveillance to be examined in detail by the larger Tselina-D satellites.

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Molniya-M | Prognoz-3

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Feb. 15, 1973, 1:11 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Prognoz is a series of research satellites to study solar activity and its influence on Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere.

Elliptical Orbit
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Voskhod | Zenit-4M 46

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Feb. 8, 1973, 1:15 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The soviet Zenit-4M (Rotor, 11F691) was an improved version of the Zenit-4 high resolution reconnaissance satellite and was part of the Vostok-based Zenit-family.

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Molniya-M | Molniya-1 23

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Feb. 3, 1973, 5:48 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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Voskhod | Zenit-2M 35

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Feb. 1, 1973, 8:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The soviet Zenit-2M (Gektor, 11F690) was an improved version of the Zenit-2 area surveillance reconnaissance satellite. It was part of the Vostok-based Zenit-family.

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Kosmos-3M | Zaliv-GVM 4

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
Jan. 26, 1973, 11:44 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Zaliv-GVM satellites were mass models of the Zaliv navigation satellites, which were launched as payload substitutes on some Kosmos-3M evaluation launches.

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